Exploiting diversity for answering questions

  • Authors:
  • John Burger;John Henderson

  • Affiliations:
  • The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA;The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA

  • Venue:
  • NAACL-Short '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology: companion volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003--short papers - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We describe initial experiments in combining the output of question answering systems using data from the 2002 TREC Question Answering task. We explore several distance-based combining methods, as well as a number of distance metrics involving both word and character ngrams.