An Algorithm that Learns What‘s in a Name
Machine Learning - Special issue on natural language learning
Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images
Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images
High-performance, open-domain question answering from large text collections
High-performance, open-domain question answering from large text collections
A question answering system supported by information extraction
ANLC '00 Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing
ANLC '00 Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing
Using knowledge to facilitate factoid answer pinpointing
COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Parsing and question classification for question answering
ODQA '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Open-domain question answering - Volume 12
Structured use of external knowledge for event-based open domain question answering
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
QUALIFIER: question answering by lexical fabric and external resources
EACL '03 Proceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Using knowledge to facilitate factoid answer pinpointing
COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Learning surface text patterns for a Question Answering system
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Reranking answers for definitional QA using language modeling
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Web-based list question answering
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication
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We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering system, Webclopedia, in answering definition questions. The results indicate applying dictionary and web-based answer reranking together increase the performance of Webclopedia on a set of 102 TREC-10 definition questions by 25% in mean reciprocal rank score and 14% in finding answers in the top 5.