Complex structuring of term variants for Question Answering

  • Authors:
  • James Dowdall;Fabio Rinaldi;Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan;Eric SanJuan

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Zürich;University of Zürich;University of Lyon;University of Metz

  • Venue:
  • MWE '03 Proceedings of the ACL 2003 workshop on Multiword expressions: analysis, acquisition and treatment - Volume 18
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Question Answering provides a method of locating precise answers to specific questions but in technical domains the amount of Multi-Word Terms complicates this task.This paper outlines the Question Answering task in such a domain and explores two ways of detecting relations between Multi-Word Terms. The first targets specific semantic relations, the second uses a clustering algorithm, but they are both based on the idea of syntactic variation. The paper demonstrates how the combination of these two methodologies provide sophisticated access to technical domains.