Finding answers from the seas

Finding Answers to Definition Questions

Current researches on Question Answering concern more complex questions than factoid ones. Since definition questions are investigated by many researches, how to acquire accurate answers still becomes a core problem for definition QA. Although some systems use web knowledge bases to improve answer acquisition, we propose an approach that leverage them in an effective way. After summarizing defi...

Finding Answers Using Resources in the Internet

In this paper we describe our experiments in finding answers from documents based on statistical and linguistic knowledge. We collected the candidate answers from sources available on the internet, and then we used them to validate the answers found in the documents. The candidate answers from the documents were found using a statistical technique and linguistic knowledge such as named entity t...

Finding the "right" answers for customers

This talk will present a few NLG systems developed within Thomson Reuters providing information to professionals such as lawyers, accountants or traders. Based on the experience developing these system, I will discuss the usefulness of automatic metrics, crowd-sourced evaluation, corpora studies and expert reviews. I will conclude with exploring the question of whether developers of NLG systems...

Finding Answers to Complex Questions

Finding Answers to Indonesian Questions from English Documents

Our report describes the results of work in our participation in the IndonesianEnglish question-answering task of the 2006 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). In this work we translated an Indonesian query set into English using a machine translation tool available on the internet. Documents relevant to a question are first retrieved. The relevant documents are then divided into passages of...