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Automatic Generation of Semantic Patterns for User-Interactive Question Answering

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Information Retrieval Technology (AIRS 2008)

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An automatic method for generation of semantic patterns from free-text questions is proposed in this paper. An evaluation method is also proposed to estimate the suitability of the generated patterns and implemented in our user-interactive question answering (QA) system. Experiments with 5500 questions show that 63.9% generated patterns are satisfactory in the average.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Tianyong Hao, Wanpeng Song, Dawei Hu & Wenyin Liu

  2. Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China

    Wanpeng Song & Dawei Hu

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  1. Tianyong Hao
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Hao, T., Song, W., Hu, D., Liu, W. (2008). Automatic Generation of Semantic Patterns for User-Interactive Question Answering. In: Li, H., Liu, T., Ma, WY., Sakai, T., Wong, KF., Zhou, G. (eds) Information Retrieval Technology. AIRS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4993. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68636-1_75

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