methods for using textual entailment in open domain question answering

... Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the ACL, pages 905–912, Sydney, July 2006. c 2006 Association for Computational Linguistics Methods for Using Textual Entailment in Open- Domain Question ... 2001. The Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedback in Open- Domain Textual Question- Answering. In Proceed- ings of the 39th Meeting of the Association for Com- putational Linguistics. S. Harabagiu, D. Moldovan, ... Paragraphs Question Documents Answers Answers−M1 Answers−M2 Answers−M3 QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM Figure 1: Integrating Textual Entailment in Q/A. lows. Section 2 describes the three methods of using textual...

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... recommendations for modifying a question- answering system for improving robustness to spoken input. 1 Introduction This paper demonstrates a multimodal interface for asking questions and retrieving a set ... query processing in document retrieval system. In Proc. ESCA Workshop on Accessing Information In Spoken Audio, pages 31–36. F. Crestani. 2002. Spoken query processing for interac- tive information ... transcribed questions from two speak- ers, which indicates that speech can be used for au- tomatic question- answering, but that an interface for correcting misrecognitions is probably necessary for acceptable...

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... the learning method, or due to insufficient training data. 4 Conclusions In this paper we described BIUTEE, an open- source textual- inference system, and suggested it as a re- search platform in this ... components into an ex- isting open- source system. Such research ef- forts might include developing knowledge re- sources, developing inference components for specific phenomena such as temporal infer- ence, ... Taylor”. Since applications of entailment rules and coref- erence substitutions are yet, in most cases, insuffi- cient in transforming T into H, our system allows on-the-fly transformations. These transformations include...

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... process- ing. 5 Question Reformulations In TREC-9 243 questions were reformulations of 54 inquiries, thus asking for the same answer. The reformulation classes contained variable number of questions, ... Ex- periments with Open- Domain Textual Question Answer- ing. In the Proceedings of the 18th International Con- ference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000), pages 292–298, 2000. Frederick Jelinek, John ... Vasile Rus. The Structure and Performance of an Open- Domain Question Answering System. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Comoutational Linguistics (ACL-2000), pages 563–570,...

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... Combining Engines A relevant feature of EDITS is the possibility to combine multiple Entailment Engines into a sin- gle one. This can be done by grouping their def- initions as sub-modules in ... Learning Textual Entailment using SVMs and String Similarity Measures. Proc. of the ACL ’07 Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing. Ido Dagan and 0ren Glickman 2004. Probabilistic Textual ... the task of checking for the existence of en- tailment relations between an input question (the text in RTE parlance), and a set of textual realiza- tions of domain- specific binary relations (the...

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... functional relations. In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Dan Roth and Mark Sammons. 2007. Semantic and log- ical inference model for textual entailment. In Pro- ceedings of ACL-WTEP ... serve to point out promising areas for further research in collecting common-sense knowledge. References M. Banko, M. J. Cafarella, S. Soderland, M. Broadhead, and O. Etzioni. 2007. Open information ... 2008). Several interesting form-based categories, in- cluding Prominent relationships, Argument Types, and Simultaneous Conditions, had quite low inter- annotator agreement. We continue to believe...

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... for encoding information about the decision tree. MDL ranks, along with Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and Bayes Informa- tion Criterion (BIC), as a standard criterion in ma- chine learning ... resources for training learning al- gorithms in summarization. References Yihong Gong and Xin Liu. 2001. Generic text summa- rization using relevance measure and latent semantic analysis. In Proceedings ... Shimbun, Inc. Tadashi Nomoto and Yuji Matsumoto. 2000. Comparing the minimum description length principle and boosting in the automatic analysis of discourse. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International...

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... recall whereas the learning- based methods maintain a higher precision. Sim- ilar to the in- domain setting using few labeled training data, the incorporation of generalization increases both precision ... learning- based methods CRF and CK on an in- domain evaluation (ETHICS -domain) using different amounts of labeled training data. We carry out a 5-fold cross-validation and use n% of the train- ing ... Germany {Michael.Wiegand|Dietrich.Klakow}@lsv.uni-saarland.de Abstract In this paper, we compare three different generalization methods for in- domain and cross -domain opinion holder extraction be- ing simple unsupervised word clustering, an induction method inspired...

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... Tag- ging Using Decision Trees. Proceedings of the In- ternational Conference on New Methods in Language Processing. Marta Tatu andDan Moldovan. 2005. A semantic ap- proach to recognizing textual entailment. ... language variability. Proceedings of the PASCAL Workshop of Learning Methods for Text Understanding and Min- ing. Ido Dagan, Bill Dolan, Bernardo Magnini, and Dan Roth. 2009. Recognizing textual entailment: Rational, ... Lexical chains for question answering. Proceedings of COL- ING. Matteo Negri and Yashar Mehdad. 2010. Creating a Bi- lingual Entailment Corpus through Translations with Mechanical Turk: $100 for a...

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... advantages of using computers in reading ESP teaching and learning. I.2.3.1.1.Model of teaching ESP reading with computers Some models of using computers in teaching FL can be applied for the past ... following main methods to do the research:  Consulting books, journals and newspapers on applying IT in teaching and learning foreign languages or ESP;  Searching information on the Internet ... for teaching and learning (in general) and teaching and learning FL (in particular). As far as this study is concerned, certain applications of computers in teaching and learning FL are going...

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