Exploiting paraphrases in a question answering system

Fabio Rinaldi; James Dowdall; Kaarel Kaljurand; Michael Hess; Diego Mollá

doi:10.3115/1118984.1118988

Exploiting paraphrases in a question answering system

Fabio Rinaldi, James Dowdall, Kaarel Kaljurand, Michael Hess, Diego Mollá

School of Computing

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We present a Question Answering system for technical domains which makes an intelligent use of paraphrases to increase the likelihood of finding the answer to the user's question. The system implements a simple and efficient logic representation of questions and answers that maps paraphrases to the same underlying semantic representation. Further, paraphrases of technical terminology are dealt with by a separate process that detects surface variants.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing
Subtitle of host publication	paraphrase acquisition and applications (IWP2003)
Editors	Kentaro Inui, Ulf Hermjakob
Place of Publication	East Stroudsburg, USA
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	25-32
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	1932432116
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3115/1118984.1118988
Publication status	Published - 2003
Event	Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (41st : 2003) - Sapporo, Japan Duration: 7 Jul 2003 → 12 Jul 2003

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Conference	Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (41st : 2003)
City	Sapporo, Japan
Period	7/07/03 → 12/07/03

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Rinaldi, F., Dowdall, J., Kaljurand, K., Hess, M., & Mollá, D. (2003). Exploiting paraphrases in a question answering system. In K. Inui, & U. Hermjakob (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing: paraphrase acquisition and applications (IWP2003) (pp. 25-32). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.3115/1118984.1118988

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Rinaldi, F, Dowdall, J, Kaljurand, K, Hess, M & Mollá, D 2003, Exploiting paraphrases in a question answering system. in K Inui & U Hermjakob (eds), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing: paraphrase acquisition and applications (IWP2003). Association for Computational Linguistics, East Stroudsburg, USA, pp. 25-32, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (41st : 2003), Sapporo, Japan, 7/07/03. https://doi.org/10.3115/1118984.1118988

Exploiting paraphrases in a question answering system. / Rinaldi, Fabio; Dowdall, James; Kaljurand, Kaarel et al.
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing: paraphrase acquisition and applications (IWP2003). ed. / Kentaro Inui; Ulf Hermjakob. East Stroudsburg, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003. p. 25-32.

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