Searching for Definitional Answers on the Web Using Surface Patterns

  • Authors:

  • Alejandro Figueroa;Günter Neumann;John Atkinson

  • Affiliations:

  • German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence;German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence;University of Concepcion

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A novel question-answering system employs query rewriting techniques to increase the probability of extracting nuggets from various Web snippets by matching surface patterns. Experimental results show the approach's promise versus existing techniques.