Building a question answering test collection
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Scaling question answering to the Web
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Exploiting redundancy in question answering
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Bootstrapping an ontology-based information extraction system
Intelligent exploration of the web
Analyses for elucidating current question answering technology
Natural Language Engineering
ANLC '00 Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing
Nymble: a high-performance learning name-finder
ANLC '97 Proceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing
The NYU system for MUC-6 or where's the syntax?
MUC6 '95 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Message understanding
Learning surface text patterns for a Question Answering system
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Looking under the hood: tools for diagnosing your question answering engine
ODQA '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Open-domain question answering - Volume 12
Language independent NER using a unified model of internal and contextual evidence
COLING-02 proceedings of the 6th conference on Natural language learning - Volume 20
Unsupervised personal name disambiguation
CONLL '03 Proceedings of the seventh conference on Natural language learning at HLT-NAACL 2003 - Volume 4
AnswerBus question answering system
HLT '02 Proceedings of the second international conference on Human Language Technology Research
VisiQ: Supporting visual and interactive query refinement
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Wrapping VRXQuery with self-adaptive fuzzy capabilities
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Language independent answer prediction from the web
FinTAL'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
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We present a novel method for mining textual answers in Web pages using semi-structured NL questions and Google for initial document retrieval. We exploit the redundancy on the Web by weighting all identified named entities (NEs) found in the relevant document set based on their occurrences and distributions. The ranked NEs are used as our primary anchors for document indexing, paragraph selection, and answer identification. The latter is dependent on two factors: the overlap of terms at different levels (e.g., tokens and named entities) between queries and sentences, and the relevance of identified NEs corresponding to the expected answer type. The set of answer candidates is further subdivided into ranked equivalent classes from which the final answer is selected. The system has been evaluated using question-answer pairs extracted from a popular German quiz book.