Kernels on linguistic structures for answer extraction

  • Authors:
  • Alessandro Moschitti;Silvia Quarteroni

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Trento, POVO (TN) - Italy;University of Trento, POVO (TN) - Italy

  • Venue:
  • HLT-Short '08 Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technologies: Short Papers
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Information Retrieval has always been an interesting and challenging research area. Despite the high expectations, most of the results indicate that successfully using NLP is very complex. In this paper, we show how Support Vector Machines along with kernel functions can effectively represent syntax and semantics. Our experiments on question/answer classification show that the above models highly improve on bag-of-words on a TREC dataset.