The use of MMR, diversity-based reranking for reordering documents and producing summaries
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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
Automatically evaluating answers to definition questions
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Answering Definition Question: Ranking for Top-k
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
From text question-answering to multimedia QA on web-scale media resources
LS-MMRM '09 Proceedings of the First ACM workshop on Large-scale multimedia retrieval and mining
An Unsupervised Model of Exploiting the Web to Answer Definitional Questions
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Using negative voting to diversify answers in non-factoid question answering
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Summarizing definition from Wikipedia
ACL '09 Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 1 - Volume 1
Question answering system with recommendation using fuzzy relational product operator
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
Informative sentence retrieval for domain specific terminologies
IEA/AIE'11 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Industrial engineering and other applications of applied intelligent systems conference on Modern approaches in applied intelligence - Volume Part I
Vocabulary filtering for term weighting in archived question search
PAKDD'10 Proceedings of the 14th Pacific-Asia conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - Volume Part I
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Current approaches to identifying definitional sentences in the context of Question Answering mainly involve the use of linguistic or syntactic patterns to identify informative nuggets. This is insufficient as they do not address the novelty factor that a definitional nugget must also possess. This paper proposes to address the deficiency by building a "Human Interest Model" from external knowledge. It is hoped that such a model will allow the computation of human interest in the sentence with respect to the topic. We compare and contrast our model with current definitional question answering models to show that interestingness plays an important factor in definitional question answering.