ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of N04-1008
Paper Title:
AUTOMATIC QUESTION ANSWERING: BEYOND THE FACTOID
AUTOMATIC QUESTION ANSWERING: BEYOND THE FACTOID
Authors: Radu Soricut and Eric Brill
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- algorithm
- answer extraction
- answer finding
- answer generation
- answer\/question translation
- answerextraction
- automatic evaluation
- automatic question answering
- chunker
- chunking
- computational linguistics
- computing
- dynamic programming
- dynamic programming algorithm
- em algorithm
- evaluation procedure
- extraction algorithm
- factoid question answering
- identification
- information retrieval
- information retrieval engine
- information retrieval task
- ir engine
- language identification
- learning
- machine translation
- machine translation framework
- mining
- parser
- parsing
- pattern-matching
- programming algorithm
- qa system
- question answering
- question answering system
- question reformulation
- question segmentation
- retrieval engine
- scoring
- search
- search engine
- search engines
- segmentation
- sentence parsing
- statistical approaches
- statistical machine translation
- statistical translation
- text retrieval
- tokenization
- tuning
Other assigned terms:
- answer\/question translation model
- approach
- bleu
- bleu score
- brevity penalty
- case
- chunk
- co-occurrence
- co-occurrence statistics
- collocation
- community
- conditional probability
- conditional probability distribution
- correlations
- discourse
- distribution
- document
- document collections
- evaluations
- fact
- factoid question
- first hit
- generation
- generation model
- human judgment
- ibm model
- information need
- knowledge
- language model
- language model probability
- large training
- lexical coverage
- likelihood
- likelihood ratio
- linguistics
- linguistics research
- mapping
- mappings
- measure
- mechanisms
- method
- model probability
- n-best list
- n-gram
- natural language
- noise
- noisy channel
- oracle
- parallel corpus
- paraphrases
- precision
- prior probability
- probabilities
- probability
- probability distribution
- procedure
- punctuation
- qa system architecture
- queries
- query
- question answering task
- question types
- question-answer pair
- reference answer
- retrieval task
- sentence
- sentences
- statistical model
- statistical translation model
- statistics
- substring
- syntactic constituents
- system architecture
- system performance
- technique
- term
- terms
- test data
- test set
- text
- training
- training and test data
- training corpus
- training data
- training set
- transformation
- translation model
- translation table
- translations
- trigram
- trigram language model
- user
- word
- words
