Two Proposals of a QA Answer Extraction Module Based on Semantic Roles

  • Authors:
  • Paloma Moreda;Hector Llorens;Estela Saquete;Manuel Palomar

  • Affiliations:
  • Natural Language Processing Research Group., Universitiy of Alicante., Alicante, Spain;Natural Language Processing Research Group., Universitiy of Alicante., Alicante, Spain;Natural Language Processing Research Group., Universitiy of Alicante., Alicante, Spain;Natural Language Processing Research Group., Universitiy of Alicante., Alicante, Spain

  • Venue:
  • MICAI '08 Proceedings of the 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The contribution of semantic roles to question answering is considered to be very valuable. Due to this fact, the aim of this paper is to analyze the influence of semantic roles in this area. In order to achieve this goal a web QA system has been implemented using two different proposals for the answer extraction module based on semantic roles, and both implementations have been evaluated for location type questions. For the first proposal, a simple set of semantic rules was created, whereas, for the second proposal, a database of possible answer semantic patterns was automatically developed. This DB is created in a first step and it will be reused each time the answer extraction module is used. Results of both approaches have been analyzed and compared showing that the patterns-based approach improves the rules-based one in precision (+ 34.40%) and recall (+ 42.80%).