Question Analysis Module




A framework of evaluation for question-answering systems
[PDF] from limsi.frS El Ayari... - Advances in Information Retrieval, 2009 - Springer
... This criterion is a good one for us because it reveals when the system works the way it is supposed
to. The tables underneath illustrate the impact of the focus on the results. This evaluation is done
on the question set of CLEF05, in the question analysis module. ... 
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[CITATION] Intelligentes Information Retrieval
I Wachsmuth... - AI Magazine, 2010
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[PDF] Question Answering on web data: the QA evaluation in Quæro
[PDF] from limsi.frL Quintard, O Galibert, G Adda, B Grau... - Proceedings of the ..., 2010 - limsi.fr
... As a result, the focus has to be determined by the question analysis module in order to enable
the QALC system to find a common noun or verb phrase as answer. ... " The focus of the question,
determined by the rules of the question analysis module, is Knight Ridder. ... 
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Research on the Question Answering System in Chinese Based on Knowledge Represent of Conceptual Graphs
P Liu, L Li... - Applied Informatics and Communication, 2011 - Springer
... 3 The Structure of QACG According to QA structure [2,4], QACG structure is designed in
this section. QACG includes the question analysis module, information search module
and answering extraction module. A. The Question Analysis Module ... 
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A Vietnamese question answering system
[PDF] from vnu.edu.vnDQ Nguyen, SB Pham - Knowledge and Systems ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... "Which students study at computer science class k50 and come from Hanoi?" The Question
analysis module determines that this question has a ... Specifically, the Question Analysis module
and the Answer Retrieval module achieve an accuracy of 95% and 70% respectively. In ... 
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Effects of answer weight boosting in strategy-driven question answering
[PDF] from kaist.ac.krHJ Oh, SH Myaeng... - Information Processing & Management, 2011 - Elsevier
... The right hand side in Fig. 1 corresponds to the offline process of text analysis for answer
generations and of strategy learning. The other half on the left roughly corresponds to the process
of QA with a user question that needs to go through the Question Analysis module. ... 
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Evaluating paragraph retrieval for why-QA
[PDF] from kun.nlS Verberne, L Boves, N Oostdijk... - Advances in Information ..., 2008 - Springer
... 1. A question analysis module, which applies a list of stop words to the question and removes
punctuation, returning the set of question content words; 2. A query creation module that transforms
the set of question words into one or more Wumpus-style queries and sends this ... 
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Question answering on English and Romanian languages
[PDF] from uaic.roA Iftene, D Trandabat, A Moruz, I Pistol... - ... Access Evaluation I. ..., 2011 - Springer
... The evaluation of the performance of our question-answering systems participating in the
ResPubliQA competition concentrated on detecting the module that performed worst. Thus, we
started by observing the question analysis module. Only the question Page 6. ... 
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An Arabic Question-Answering system for factoid questions
W Brini, M Ellouze, S Mesfar... - ... Engineering, 2009. NLP ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... The proposed system is composed of three modules: A question analysis module, a
passage retrieval module and an answer extraction module. ... The question analysis module
is robust, but the bilingualism causes a drop in its performance. ... 
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Processing comparisons and evaluations in business intelligence: A question answering system
K Choi, RM Pacana, AL Tan... - Uncertainty Reasoning ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... representations to be discussed in the next sections. The Question Analysis Module
semantically processes the natural language question and creates a question
representation. An input question passes through a preprocessor ... 
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[PDF] Enhancing performance with a learnable strategy for multiple question answering modules
[PDF] from kaist.ac.krHJ Oh, SH Myaeng... - ETRI journal, 2009 - ir.kaist.ac.kr
Page 1. ETRI Journal, Volume 31, Number 4, August 2009 (c) 2009 Hyo-Jung Oh et
al. 419 A question answering (QA) system can be built using multiple QA modules
that can individually serve as a QA system in and of themselves. ... 
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UAIC participation at QA@ CLEF2008
[PDF] from clef-campaign.orgA Iftene, D Trandabat, I Pistol, AM Moruz... - Evaluating Systems for ..., 2009 - Springer
... For the two first classes of errors, most misidentified answer type occurred for the Object type
(15 misclassifications), since our question analysis module focuses mainly on named entities
in order to determine the answer type, while questions with Object answer type usually don ... 
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Ihardetsi: a Basque question answering system at QA@ CLEF 2008
[PDF] from clef-campaign.orgO Ansa, X Arregi, A Otegi... - Evaluating Systems for ..., 2009 - Springer
... This module produces a set of queries taking as input a) the search terms selected by the question
analysis module, b) the search terms selected by the question analysis module for the first question
of a topic (if the question is not the first) and c) the first three answers of the first ... 
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A syntactic tree matching approach to finding similar questions in community-based qa services
[PDF] from nus.edu.sgK Wang, Z Ming... - Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM ..., 2009 - dl.acm.org
Page 1. A Syntactic Tree Matching Approach to Finding Similar Questions in
Community-based QA Services Kai Wang Department of Computer Science School
of Computing National University of Singapore kwang@comp.nus.edu.sg ... 
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Chinese patent retrieval based on the pragmatic information
L Wu, S Liu... - Natural Language Processing and ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... From the Figure 2, we can see that there are three modules in the system. They are translation
module, question analysis module and document retrieval module respectively. In this paper,
we are mainly referred to question analysis module and document retrieval module. ... 
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Web-Based Anaphora Resolution for the QUASAR Question Answering System
[PDF] from upv.esD Buscaldi, Y Benajiba, P Rosso... - Advances in Multilingual ..., 2008 - Springer
... The AR hands over the eventually reformulated question to the Question Analysis module, which
is composed by a Question Analyzer that extracts some constraints to be used in the answer
extraction phase, and by a Question Classifier that determines the class of the input ... 
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Research of passage retrieval for question answering system
[PDF] from 144.214.124.123X Li - 2010 - 144.214.124.123
... 2.1 Automatic Question Answering System .....14 2.1.1 Question Analysis
Module.....14 2.1 ... 45 Figure 12 Question Analysis Module .....46 ... 
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Improving text retrieval precision and answer accuracy in question answering systems
[PDF] from aclweb.orgMW Bilotti... - Coling 2008: Proceedings of the 2nd workshop ..., 2008 - dl.acm.org
... This dependency is necessary to enable the answer ex- traction mechanism to
determine whether answers exist in retrieved text, by analyzing it and compar- ing
it against the question analysis module's an- swer specification. ... 
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Compositional question answering: A divide and conquer approach
[PDF] from kaist.ac.krHJ Oh, KY Sung, MG Jang... - Information Processing & ..., 2010 - Elsevier
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[PDF] Research of Question Analysis Based on HNC and K Nearest Neighbor
[PDF] from jofcis.comX CHENG, J WANG... - Journal of Computational Information ..., 2010 - jofcis.com
... The main function of question text pre-processor in question analysis module is to obtain domain
knowledge and extract semantic information from question text submitted by the user, and then
generates the HNC symbols property group for question classifier and semantic ... 
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Answering Questions with an n-gram based Passage Retrieval Engine
[PDF] from ua.esD Buscaldi, P Rosso, JM Gómez-Soriano... - Journal of Intelligent ..., 2010 - Springer
Page 1. J Intell Inf Syst (2010) 34:113-134 DOI 10.1007/s10844-009-0082-y
Answering questions with an n-gram based passage retrieval engine Davide
Buscaldi·Paolo Rosso· José Manuel Gómez-Soriano·Emilio Sanchis ... 
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Shallow semantic analysis of chinese question in book information domain
G Hao, C Junjie... - Intelligent Information Technology ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... Page 2. Figure 1. Logic structure of question analysis module has been pretreated, and implement
semantic chunk tagging. · Question Vector Generating: Acquire given and un- known information
from the sentence with semantic chunk tagging and generate question vector. III. ... 
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Question Answering Using Statistical Language Modelling
MH Heie, EWD Whittaker... - Computer Speech & Language, 2011 - Elsevier
... A typical state-of-the-art QA system architecture, such as the one shown in (Prager, 2006), has
a Question Analysis module which processes a question posed by the user. ... 1, follows this pattern
closely, although it doesn't have a separate Question Analysis module. ... 
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Question answering based on answer trustworthiness
HJ Oh, CH Lee, YC Yoon... - Information Retrieval Technology, 2009 - Springer
... ( max arg * QaC a = (2) where C(a, Q) computes the confidence value between a and Q. As Q
is translated into a set of internal query <q1, q2, ..., qN> (N is the number of the QA modules)
for the chosen strategy by the Question Analysis module, C(a, Q) is defined as follows: ... 
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Selecting answers to questions from Web documents by a robust validation process
[PDF] from limsi.frA Grappy, B Grau, MH Falco... - ... Technology (WI-IAT ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... Questions may expect a named entity as an answer (as Who is the president of the United
States? which expects a person name in response) or not (as Name a Michael Jackson's
success.), and are distinguished by the question analysis module. ... 
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Question answering based on pervasive agent ontology and Semantic Web
Q Guo... - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2009 - Elsevier
... This matrix is then analyzed to derive our particular latent semantic structure model for later
document retrieval and passage retrieval. Question analysis module is important to QA system.
Given a question, the system generates a number of weighted rewrite strings. ... 
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Question answering for Portuguese: how much is needed?
R Wilkens, A Villavicencio - Advances in Artificial Intelligence-SBIA 2010, 2011 - Springer
... The passage retrieval module takes the document retrieved by the IR module and splits it
into sentences. Based on the expected type of answer determined by the question analysis
module, these sentences are filtered to remove unrelated sentences. ... 
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Semantic information integration and question answering based on pervasive agent ontology
[PDF] from grids.cnQ Guo... - Expert Systems with Applications, 2009 - Elsevier
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[PDF] DefArabicQA: Arabic Definition Question Answering System
[PDF] from lrec-conf.orgO Trigui, HL Belguith... - Workshop on Language Resources ..., 2010 - lrec-conf.org
... the top-n snippets retrieved by the Web search engine. This specific query is
constituted of the question topic which is identified by the question analysis module.
After collecting the top-n snippets, only those snippets containing ... 
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Exploiting wikipedia and eurowordnet to solve cross-lingual question answering
S Ferrández, A Toral, Ó Ferrández, A Ferrández... - Information ..., 2009 - Elsevier
... for research purposes. 12. 3.4. Question Analysis module. For carrying out the
Question Analysis phase we consider the use of a shallow parser tool with the aim
of realizing a syntactic analysis of the question. From the output ... 
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Can Esculape cure the complex of œdipe in the medical domain?
M Embarek... - Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... These patterns are then used for extracting answers from selected passages (see Section 2)
according to the results of the question analysis module. Each candidate passage is tested
against each pattern learnt for the relation that underlies the question. ... 
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[PDF] Towards logic-based question answering under time constraints
[PDF] from iaeng.orgI Glöckner - Proc. of the 2008 IAENG Int. Conf. on Artificial ..., 2008 - iaeng.org
... anaphora. The question analysis module, which is part of the IRSAW QA framework
[4], further extracts query terms, the expected answer type, and other information of
interest to subsequent processing stages. 2.2 Passage retrieval ... 
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A hybrid filtering approach for question answering
[PDF] from dcu.ieSF Adafre... - 2009 - doras.dcu.ie
... evidence. Definition Questions: The system takes the topic generated by the question
analysis module, and submits it as a query to the retrieval module. The returned
passages and Wikipedia articles are split into sentences. ... 
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[PDF] Query Expansion and Machine Translation for Robust Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
[PDF] from cmu.eduN Lao, H Shima, T Mitamura... - BIOGRAPHY, 2010 - cs.cmu.edu
... More details regarding the other parts of Javelin IV can be found in [9]. 3. Question
Analysis Module The Question Analyzer is responsible for two main tasks: predicting
the answer type and identifying key terms from the question. ... 
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Ihardetsi: A Question Answering system for Basque built on reused linguistic processors
I Alegria, O Ansa, X Arregi, A Otegi... - Proc. SALTMIL 2009 ..., 2009 - isca-speech.org
... These descriptors constitute the documentation support of the system. As it is common in the
question answering systems Ihardetsi is founded on three main modules: the question analysis
module, the passage retrieval module and the answer extraction module. ... 
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Idsay: Question answering for portuguese
[PDF] from clef-campaign.orgG Carvalho, D de Matos... - Evaluating Systems for Multilingual ..., 2009 - Springer
... XML file (automatic interface). Each question is analysed in the question analysis
module to determine the question type and other variables to be used in the answer
extraction and validation modules. The question analysis ... 
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Pragmatic analysis based query expansion for Chinese cuisine QA service system
L Xia... - ... and Knowledge Engineering (NLP-KE), 2010 ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... The flowchart of the Web-based QA system is shown in Figure 1. And we have already completed
the question analysis module. ... we have carried out question analysis to these instances. Figure
2 shows the architecture of question analysis module. scr queslion + ... 
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A survey of text mining techniques and applications
[PDF] from academypublisher.comV Gupta... - Journal of Emerging Technologies in ..., 2009 - academypublisher.com
... Question Analysis and Passage Retrieval modules. The architecture is shown in
figure15. The main objective of question analysis module is to derive the expected
answer type from the question text. This is a crucial step of ... 
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Answer type validation in question answering systems
[PDF] from quaero.orgA Grappy... - Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... pairs (answer/type). 3. ANSWER TYPE The expected answer type is determined by the question
analysis module of FRASQUES [3], a shallow parser that makes use of syntactic and semantic
criteria, the question word and the syntactic form of the question. ... 
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The answer validation system ProdicosAV dedicated to French
C Jacquin, L Monceaux... - Evaluating Systems for ..., 2009 - Springer
... The question analysis module: it extracts relevant features from questions that will make it possible
to guide the passage extraction and the answer C. Peters et al. ... The problems come mainly from
the question analysis module or from the passage selection module. ... 
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Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
[PDF] from cmu.eduMW Bilotti, J Elsas, J Carbonell... - Proceedings of the 19th ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... For the purposes of this study, we consider only the first two modules of the pipelined QA system
shown in Figure 1. The Question Analysis module uses NLP resources to map the question into
a representation we call the information need, which consists of the linguistic and ... 
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Text summarization contribution to semantic question answering: New approaches for finding answers on the web
E Lloret, H Llorens, P Moreda... - ... Journal of Intelligent ..., 2011 - Wiley Online Library
... Figure 1. Overview of our QA approach. Download figure to PowerPoint. thumbnail image. The
goal of the question analysis module is to extract all relevant information from the question.
Specifically, this module extracts the question type, the focus, and the keywords. ... 
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Ontology-Based Interactive Question and Answering System
L Liu, Q Qi... - Internet Technology and Applications, 2010 ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... I. INTRODUCTION In information retrieval, question answering (QA) is the task of automatically
answering a question posed in natural language [1]. In traditional QA, the question analysis
module has to analyze users' questions deeply [2], in order to get rich and accurate ... 
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Chinese question answering system based on question classification and similarity
G Dongwei, J Chenhui, L Miao... - ... and Technology (ICIST ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... search for information from the Internet and then return answers to users after filtering using
answer extraction algorithm The main structure of our article is: first introduces the main
components and process of the system, then introduced the question analysis module, the main ... 
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A query-specific opinion summarization system
[PDF] from tsinghua.edu.cnF Jin, M Huang... - ... Informatics, 2009. ICCI'09. 8th IEEE ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... comments. And then the cleaned articles are split into sentences using the sentence
splitter' provided by NIST. The question analysis module determines 2 http ://duc
.nist.gov/duc2004 /software /duc2003 .breakSent.tar.gz the ... 
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Towards the definition of requirements for mixed fact and opinion question answering systems
A Balahur, E Boldrini, A Montoyo... - Proceeding of the 1st ..., 2009 - dl.acm.org
... Spanish. Regarding its architecture, three modules compose it. The first one is the
Question Analysis module in which the language object of the study is determined
selecting the language for which more words are found. The ... 
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Dublin city university at QA@ CLEF 2008
[PDF] from dcu.ieS Adafre... - Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and ..., 2009 - Springer
... The query terms generated by the Question Analysis Module is submitted to both
CollIndex and WikiIndex. ... The system takes the topic generated by the question analysis
module, and submits it as a query to the retrieval module. ... 
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Biomedical question answering: A survey
[PDF] from drexel.eduSJ Athenikos... - Computer methods and programs in biomedicine, 2010 - Elsevier
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Automatic Recognition of Focus and Interrogative Word in Chinese Question for Classification
[PDF] from ccsenet.orgZ Zhang, Y Zhang, T Liu... - Computer and Information ..., 2010 - journal.ccsenet.org
... The goal to classify the expected answer type is to provide the constraint condition for answer
extraction. Results of the error analysis of an open domain QA system showed that 36.4% of the
errors were generated by the question analysis module (Moldovan et al., 2003). ... 
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Semantic Retrieval Approach to Factoid Question Answering for Bulgarian
[PDF] from uni-sofia.bgS Peshterliev... - Third International Conference on Software, ..., 2011 - Springer
... Simov and Osenova described the architecture of BulQA [9], a Q&A system for
Bulgarian language with a question analysis module, an interface module and an
answer extraction module, which was evaluated at CLEF 2005. ... 
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[BOOK] Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language: 9th International Conference, PROPOR 2010, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, April 27-30, 2010. ...
TAS Pardo - 2010 - books.google.com
... Page 20. 8 G. Carvalho, DM de Matos, and V. Rocio by the Question Analysis module. ...
Some minor adjustments were also made in the Question Analysis module, especially
regarding co-reference resolution in cluster questions. ... 
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[PDF] Question Answering What does this question ask for? Experiments on Expected Answer Type recognition
[PDF] from loria.frLH Perez - 2009 - loria.fr
... question into the appropriate cat- egory in the hierarchy. The results of the question
analysis module for identifying the questions model has a greater effect on the rest
of the QA system. Once the type of entity being sought has ... 
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Question answering system based on ontology and semantic web
[PDF] from paper.edu.cnQ Guo... - Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on ..., 2008 - dl.acm.org
... This matrix is then analyzed to derive our particular latent semantic structure model for later
document retrieval and passage retrieval. Question analysis module is important to QA system.
Given a question, the system generates a number of weighted rewrite strings. ... 
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Improving IdSay: A Characterization of Strengths and Weaknesses in Question Answering Systems for Portuguese
G Carvalho, D de Matos... - Computational Processing of the ..., 2010 - Springer
... Page 8. 8 G. Carvalho, DM de Matos, and V. Rocio by the Question Analysis module. ... Some minor
adjustments were also made in the Question Analysis module, especially regarding co-reference
resolution in cluster questions. 4 Results of Improved Version ... 
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[PDF] Fine-grained linguistic evaluation of question answering systems
[PDF] from limsi.frS El Ayari, B Grau... - ... of the Seventh International Conference on ..., 2010 - limsi.fr
... In this way, it will be possible to follow the treatment of specific phenomena all along the process
by storing all the question characteristics resulting from the question analysis module and
retrieving them in the results of the analysis of selected passages. 4.2. ... 
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Learning foci for question answering over topic maps
[PDF] from psu.eduA Mikhailian, T Dalmas... - Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP ..., 2009 - dl.acm.org
... hand-crafted rules. In our case, focus extraction - though defined with topic map
retrieval in mind - stays clear of on- tological dependencies so that the same question
analysis module can be applied to any topic map. In open ... 
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Classic Chinese Automatic Question Answering System Based on Pragmatics Information
Y Yang, P Jiang, F Ren... - Artificial Intelligence, 2008 ..., 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... Chinese automat- ically. The complete architecture of the system is shown in Fig 1.
The system consists of three modules: sentence analysis module, question analysis
module and document retrieval module. We compute similarity ... 
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3-Layer ontology based query expansion for searching
L Liu... - Advances in Neural Networks-ISNN 2011, 2011 - Springer
... in this paper. Page 2. 622 L. Liu and F. Li entities, a set of Domain Description
Ontology layer that represent a more detailed description of each attribute of entity
which is need by the question analysis module. In order to search ... 
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Chinese question classification based on mining association rules
YL Sun - Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), 2010 ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... A typical question answering system includes four modules: question analysis, search module,
answer candidate extraction and answer selection. Question analysis module extracts keywords,
classifies question type and gives a kind of formal expression of a given question. ... 
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A novel approach for question answering and automatic diagnosis based on pervasive agent ontology in medicine
Q Guo - International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. A Novel Approach for Question Answering and Automatic Diagnosis Based
on Pervasive Agent Ontology in Medicine Qing-lin Guo1,2,* 1School of Computer
Science and Technology, North China Electric Power University ... 
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Question answering system based on Ontology
Q Guo - Intelligent Control and Automation, 2008. WCICA ..., 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... For the question that cannot be answered by FAQ base, this model can automatically return
exact answer fast. Question analysis module is important to QA system. Given a question,
the system generates a number of weighted rewrite strings. ... 
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Generating 3D Visual Expression Using Semantic Simplification Description Based on Logical Representation
A Rabiah, T Sembok... - Visual Informatics: Bridging Research ..., 2009 - Springer
... The architecture of the system is described as in Figure 1. Fig. 1. Architecture of Question
Answering System The question analysis module determined some information about the
question such as the key entities to retrieve from the related knowledge. ... 
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[PDF] "Justification of Answers by Verification of Dependency Relations-The French AVE Task"
[PDF] from limsi.frV Moriceau, X Tannier, A Grappy... - Forner et al.[FOR 08], 2008 - limsi.fr
... Each of these terms constitutes features given to describe a passage. They are automatically
recognized by the question analysis module of FRASQUES. 3.2 Answer verification Another
feature is based on the answer extracted from the passage by FRASQUES. ... 
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[PDF] Question Parsing for QA in Spanish
[PDF] from bas.bgI Gayo - Student Research Workshop, 2011 - lml.bas.bg
... 3 SpQA SpQA is a parser under development designed for Spanish question analysis in a QA
context. There- fore, it is thought to be part of the question analysis module of QA systems. The
grammar that is behind it is a Context Free Grammar written in the AGFL formalism3. ... 
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[CITATION] Intelligent Information Extraction using Logical Approach: Skolemize Clauses Binding
AK Rabiah, TMT Sembok... - Proceedings of Knowledge Management ..., 2008
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A novel approach for agent ontology and its application in question answering
[PDF] from zndxzk.com.cnQ Guo - Journal of Central South University of Technology, 2009 - Springer
... (1) No relative knowledge in bank domain is in knowledge base. (2) Results are not
analyzed by question analysis module. After constructing the general ontology and
the AO in bank domain, the system was tested for another time. ... 
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MU-MAQAS: A P2P based Model Updatable Mobile Automatic Q/A System
L Wang - Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, 2008. ..., 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... Q/A information can be obtained by initiative report mode. The mobile devices edit short message
and send the query request to Q/A system transmitted by connect gateway. The Q/A system extract
question and answer information through question analysis module. ... 
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Case Based Reasoning approach of tutoring in e-learning platform
MT Ileh... - ... Computing and Systems, 2009. ICMCS'09. ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... It is for this reason that one chooses a method that has the same results of the first
but that is well adequate and more applicable. In our approach, we are going to detail
the question analysis module and its functionalities. This ... 
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[PDF] Linguistic and semantic passage retrieval strategies for question answering
[PDF] from cmu.eduMW Bilotti - 2009 - cs.cmu.edu
... the QA system. For each input question, the Question Analysis module builds a
sophisticated representation of the system's information need, which is a prescription
for the answer to the in- put question. This information need ... 
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A RELEVANT CONTENT IDENTIFIER FOR A SEARCH
Y Pan, J Ye, M Li, A Signorini... - US Patent App. 12/ ..., 2009 - Google Patents
... Computer System/Device 200 Interface 204 Information Retrieval Module 214 Behavioral Data
220 Answer Identification Module 224 Question Expansion Module 208 Snippet(s) 222 Confidence
Module 230 Presentation Module 232 Question Analysis Module 210 Rewrite ... 
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Pattern Optimization and the Application in Question Answering
Y Du... - ... Systems Design and Applications, 2008. ISDA' ..., 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... Question Analysis Module. This module determines the semantic answer type which will offer
help for answer extraction, such as the person name, location name and so on. At the same time,
it also translates natural language questions into queries for the search engine. ... 
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Experiments in speech driven question answering
[PDF] from uva.esC González-Ferreras... - ... Workshop, 2008. SLT ..., 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... 3.2.3. Answer extraction The input of this module is constituted by the passages returned
by the passage retrieval module and the constraints (including the ex- pected type of
the answer) obtained through the question analysis module. ... 
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Topic indexing and retrieval for factoid qa
[PDF] from rug.nlK Ahn... - Coling 2008: Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on ..., 2008 - dl.acm.org
... The common core system that implements the an- swer retrieval method comprises (1) a question
analysis module that analyses the question and produces the question type, answer type, the
ques- tion topics and the shallow parse of the question text and (2) a retrieval module ... 
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An experiment about using copulative and comparative sentences as constraining relations
A Soto, JA Olivas, FP Romero... - ... Systems Design and ..., 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... In the other cases, the number of links is small but the user has to decide between several different
and contradictory answers. Current QA systems typically include a question analysis module
to determine the type of question and to identify the expected answer type. ... 
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INFORMATION SEARCH SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION SEARCH SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD
Y Kiyota... - US Patent App. 12/672,775, 2008 - Google Patents
Page 1. <19) United States IJS201lO2l3796A1 <12) Patent Application Publication
<10) Pub. No.: US 2011/0213796 A1 Kiyota et al. (43) Pub. Date: Sep. 1, 2011 (54)
INFORMATION SEARCH SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM ... 
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Tamil Question Classification Using Morpheme Features
SL Pandian... - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008 - books.google.com
... 1. Question type classification 4.1 Morphological Analyser (Atcharam) The available
Linguistic tools like 'Atcharam-Morphological Analyzer for Tamil' [1], is used as
processing tools in the question analysis module. Morphological ... 
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Recommending best answer in a collaborative question answering system
[PDF] from qut.edu.auL Chen - 2009 - eprints.qut.edu.au
Page 1. RECOMMENDING BEST ANSWER IN A COLLABORATIVE QUESTION ANSWERING
SYSTEM Mrs Lin Chen Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of
Information Technology (Research) School of Information Technology ... 
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Linguistic knowledge for more precision, richer answers and flexible systems
P Vossen - Revue française de linguistique appliquée, 2008 - cairn.info
... Furthermore, it has a question-analysis module that does a linguistic processing of the questions. ...
The question-analysis module will first try to match the user-input with the options, where it handles
substring and fuzzy matching, but also negation, eg no I don't want repair! ... 
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Bootstrapping named entity resources for adaptive question answering systems
[PDF] from uc3m.esP Sánchez - 2010 - e-archivo.uc3m.es
Page 1. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Escuela Politecnica Superior Tesis Doctoral
Departamento de Informática Bootstrapping Named Entity Resources for Adaptive Question
Answering Systems Leganés, Julio de 2010 Autor: César de Pablo Sánchez ... 
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Tamil Question Classification Using Morpheme Features
S Lakshmana Pandian... - Advances in Natural Language ..., 2008 - Springer
... 4.1 Morphological Analyser (Atcharam) The available Linguistic tools like 'Atcharam -
Morphological Analyzer for Tamil' [1], is used as processing tools in the question analysis module.
Morphological Ana- lyzer is a tool used to identify every morpheme parts of a word. ... 
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Mexican Experience in Spanish Question Answering
[PDF] from scielo.org.mxM Montes y Gómez, L Villaseñor Pineda... - Computación y ..., 2008 - scielo.org.mx
... The role of the question analysis module is to identify the expected answer type, ie, the
semantic category to which the answer belongs. For instance, when asking "Where did
a meteorite fall in 1908?", the expected answer type is "Location". ... 
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Using language models in question answering
[PDF] from uni-saarland.deA Merkel - 2008 - scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de
Page 1. Using Language Models in Question Answering Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades
des Doktors der Ingenieurwissenschaften der Naturwissenschaftlich-Technischen Fakultät II
-Physik und Mechatronik- der Universität des Saarlandes von Andreas Merkel ... 
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CONFIDENCE IN ANSWER FOR SEARCH
Y Pan, H Li, J Sarma, D Soukal... - US Patent App. 12/ ..., 2009 - Google Patents
... 30, 2010 Sheet 2 of 16 US 2010/0332499 Al Network 100 Client Computer System/Device 200
Search Terms 206 Interface 204 Question Expansion Module 208 Question Analysis Module
210 Indexed Data 216 Information Retrieval Module 214 Reference Site Indexed Data ... 
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Does This Answer Your Question?
M Denecke... - Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue, 2008 - Springer
... More specifically, we memorise the user turn utT at time T, the set of keywords kw(utT ) extracted
from utT by the question analysis module and the question type qt(utT ) determined by Page 14.
232 RECENT TRENDS IN DISCOURSE AND DIALOGUE the question classifier. ... 
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[PDF] Research of Passage Retrieval for Question Answering System
[PDF] from cityu.edu.hk??????????????? - 2010 - lbms03.cityu.edu.hk
... 2.1 Automatic Question Answering System .....14 2.1.1 Question Analysis
Module.....14 2.1 ... 45 Figure 12 Question Analysis Module .....46 ... 
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Research on Question Classification Method of Tibetan Online Automatic Question-Answering System
R Te - Intelligent Networks and Intelligent Systems (ICINIS), ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... understand the question. For example, "How many characters are there in Tibetan
language?" Through question analysis, the question analysis module will recognize
that the user is looking for the number of Tibetan letters. While pre ... 
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Topic indexing and retrieval for open domain factoid question answering
[PDF] from ed.ac.ukK Ahn - 2009 - era.lib.ed.ac.uk
Page 1. Topic Indexing and Retrieval for Open Domain Factoid Question Answering Kisuh Ahn
T H E U NIVER S I T Y O F E DI NBU R G H Doctor of Philosophy Institute for Communicating
and Collaborative Systems School of Informatics University of Edinburgh 2009 Page 2. ... 
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Web-Based Anaphora Resolution for the QUASAR Question Answering System
DSI y Computacion - ... Information Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the ..., 2008 - books.google.com
... The ARhands over the eventually reformulated question to the Question Analysis module, which
iscomposed by a Question Analyzer that extracts some constraints to be used in the answer
extraction phase, andby a Question Classi?er that determines the class ofthe input ... 
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[PDF] ENGLISH MALAYALAM CROSS-LINGUAL OPEN DOMAIN QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM
[PDF] from cusat.ac.inPL Nikesh - 2008 - dspace.cusat.ac.in
Page 1. PROJECT REPORT ON "ENGLISH MALAYALAM CROSS-LINGUAL OPEN
DOMAIN QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM" Submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the award of degree of MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY In ... 
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN AUTOMATED CORPORATE GOVERNANCE RATING SYSTEM
JB Odubiyi - US Patent App. 20,090/089,126, 2008 - freepatentsonline.com
... and follow secondary links (optionally). The Search Manager software can pass
the company name provided by the user to the Question Analysis module (ie, the
Question Analyzer in FIG. 2). The natural language Questions ... 
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Retrieving questions and answers in community-based question answering services
[PDF] from 137.132.14.55W KAI - 2010 - 137.132.14.55
Page 1. RETRIEVING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN COMMUNITY-BASED QUESTION
ANSWERING SERVICES KAI WANG (B.ENG, NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY)
A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ... 
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Question semantic analysis in Vietnamese QA system
T Phan, T Nguyen... - Advances in Intelligent Information and ..., 2010 - Springer
... and Fig. 5). Therefore, these words are not necessary to appear in the linguistic tuple.
In initial experiment of Question Analysis module, first step is our developing this
module based on Java programming language. In source ... 
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN AUTOMATED CORPORATE GOVERNANCE RATING SYSTEM
JB ODUBIYI - US Patent App. 12/243,043, 2008 - Google Patents
Page 1. (i9) United States (12) Patent Application Publication ODUBIYI US
20090089126A1 (io) Pub. No.: US 2009/0089126 Al (43) Pub. Date: Apr. 2, 2009
(54) METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN AUTOMATED CORPORATE ... 
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[PDF] A prototype framework for a Bangla question answering system using translation based on transliteration and table look-up as an interface for the medical ...
[PDF] from rug.nlN Haque - 2010 - scripties.let.eldoc.ub.rug.nl
Page 1. A prototype framework for a Bangla question answering system using translation
based on transliteration and table look-up as an interface for the medical domain Nafid
Haque M.Sc HLST April 2010 Page 2. University of Malta ... 
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[PDF] Named Entity Recognition in Questions: Towards a Golden Collection
[PDF] from lrec-conf.orgAC Mendes, L Coheur... - Proceedings of the Seventh ..., 2010 - lrec-conf.org
... languages. Finally, we aim at using the created resource 579 Page 7. in the question
analysis module of an in-house Question- Answering system, and study how it can
improve its per- formance. 7. Acknowledgments Ana Cristina ... 
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Arabic named entity recognition
[PDF] from upv.esY Benajiba - 2009 - dspace.cc.upv.es
Page 1. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y
Computación Reconocimiento de Formas e Inteligencia Artificial Arabic Named Entity Recognition
The accepted dissertation of Yassine Benajiba in partial fulfillment of the requirements ... 
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Frequently asked questions web pages automatic text summarization
[PDF] from aucegypt.eduYM Shaalan - 2011 - dar.aucegypt.edu
Page 1. The American University in Cairo School of Sciences and Engineering
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A Thesis submitted to Department of Computer Science and Engineering ... 
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[PDF] In Search of the Why
[PDF] from ru.nlS Verberne - 2010 - lands.let.ru.nl
Page 1. In Search of the Why Developing a system for answering why-questions Suzan
Verberne Page 2. ISBN/EAN: 978-90-9025079-3 Cover photo: Gerard van der Laan,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/one96five/, Creative Commons ... 
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Experiencia Mexicana en la Búsqueda de Respuestas en Español
[PDF] from unam.mxA LÓPEZ LÓPEZ, M MONTES Y GÓMEZ... - Computación y ..., 2009 - ojs.unam.mx
... The role of the question analysis module is to identify the expected answer type, ie, the
semantic category to which the answer belongs. For instance, when asking "Where did
a meteorite fall in 1908?", the expected answer type is "Location". ... 
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[PDF] Toponym Disambiguation in Natural Language Processing
[PDF] from upv.esD Buscaldi - 2010 - dsic.upv.es
... 92 6 Toponym Disambiguation in QA 99 6.1 The SemQUASAR QA System . . . . .
99 6.1.1 Question Analysis Module . . . . . 99 6.1.2 The Passage Retrieval
Module . . . . . 101 6.1.3 WordNet-based Indexing . ... 
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