The Use of External Knowledge of Factoid QA

نویسندگان

  • Eduard H. Hovy
  • Ulf Hermjakob
  • Chin-Yew Lin
چکیده

This paper describes recent development in the Webclopedia QA system, focusing on the use of knowledge resources such as WordNet and a QA typology to improve the basic operations of candidate answer retrieval, ranking, and answer matching.

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تاریخ انتشار 2001