ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of W04-3251
Paper Title:
INSTANCE-BASED QUESTION ANSWERING: A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH
INSTANCE-BASED QUESTION ANSWERING: A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH
Authors: Lucian Vlad Lita and Jaime Carbonell
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- algorithm
- answer extraction
- answer ranking
- answer retrieval
- answer scoring
- automatic query expansion
- binary classification
- boundary detection
- candidate extraction
- classification
- classifier
- clustering
- corpus processing
- cross validation
- data acquisition
- data-driven approach
- distance function
- document pre-processing
- document retrieval
- finite state
- finite state machines
- finite state transducers
- google api
- information extraction
- instance-based approach
- kernel
- knn
- knn classification
- learning
- learning methods
- linear kernel
- local optimization
- machine learning
- maximum entropy
- modeling
- optimization
- parser
- pattern-based extraction
- pre-processing
- processing
- qa process
- qa system
- query expansion
- query generation
- question answering
- question answering systems
- question classification
- ranking
- re-training
- relations extraction
- retrieval engine
- scoring
- speech tagger
- statistical approaches
- support vector machine
- tagger
- training process
- transducers
- validation
Other assigned terms:
- annotation
- answer type
- approach
- binary classification problem
- classification problem
- cluster
- clusters
- co-occurrence
- concepts
- confidence scores
- context information
- corpora
- distribution
- document
- document set
- entropy
- fact
- feature
- feature space
- feature vectors
- frame
- generation
- human intervention
- human knowledge
- hypothesis
- implementation
- information content
- keyword
- knowledge
- large corpora
- large corpus
- lexical features
- lexical items
- measure
- measures
- method
- mutual information
- mutual information score
- n-gram
- n-grams
- nist
- noun phrase
- ontologies
- ontology
- paraphrase
- paraphrases
- parse
- part of speech
- passage
- phrase
- precision
- predictive annotation
- probabilistic approach
- probability
- probability distribution
- process
- proper noun
- queries
- query
- question type
- question types
- question-answer pair
- regular expressions
- retrieval time
- semantic
- semantic information
- semantic relations
- semantic similarity
- sentence
- similarity measures
- sparse data
- statistics
- support vector
- surface form
- temporal expressions
- term
- terms
- test data
- test set
- text
- text passage
- training
- training data
- training examples
- trees
- verb
- words