Question type (or answer type) classification is the task of determining the correct type of the answer expected to a given query. This is often done by defining or discovering syntactic patterns that represent the structure of typical queries of each type, and classify a given query according to which pattern they satisfy. In this paper, we combine the idea of using informer spans as patterns with our own part-of-speech hierarchy in order to propose both a new approach to pattern-based question type classification and a new way of discovering the informers to be used as patterns. We show experimentally that using our part-of-speech hierarchy greatly improves type classification results, and allows our system to learn valid new informers. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
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Khoury, R. (2011). Question type classification using a part-of-speech hierarchy. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6752 LNAI, pp. 212–221). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21538-4_21
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