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Syntactic features in question answering

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SIGIR '03: Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval

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https://doi.org/10.1145/860435.860512

Published: 28 July 2003 Publication History

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Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence in Question Answering, there haven't been many detailed experiments reported in the literature. The aim of the experiment described in this paper is to study the impact of a particular approach for using syntactic information on question answering effectiveness. Our results indicate that a combination of syntactic information with heuristics for ranking potential answers can perform better than the ranking heuristics on their own.

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Syntactic features in question answering
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SIGIR '03: Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval

July 2003

490 pages

ISBN:1581136463

DOI:10.1145/860435

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Charles Clarke
University of Waterloo, Canada
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Gordon Cormack
University of Waterloo, Canada
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Jamie Callan
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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David Hawking
Australian National University, Australia
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Alan Smeaton
Dublin City University, Ireland

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