Experiments with open-domain textual Question Answering
Published 1 January 2000
Sanda M. Harabagiu, Marius Paşca, Steven J. Maiorano
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This paper describes the integration of several knowledge-based natural language processing techniques into a Question Answering system, capable of mining textual answers from large collections of texts.
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This paper describes the integration of several knowledge-based natural language processing techniques into a Question Answering system, capable of mining textual answers from large collections of texts. Surprizing quality is achieved when several lightweight knowledge-based NLP techniques complement mostly shallow, surface-based approaches.
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