... 113–116,Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2008.c2008 Association for Computational LinguisticsKernels on Linguistic Structures for Answer Extraction Alessandro Moschitti and Silvia QuarteroniDISI, ... between query and answer, recentwork, e.g. (Shen and Lapata, 2007) has shown that shallow semantic information in the form of predi-cate argument structures (PASs) improves the auto-matic detection ... represent shallow syn-tactic information in the learning algorithm.To experiment with our models, we built twodifferent corpora, WEB-QA and TREC-QA by us-ing the description questions from TREC...