Question Answering (QA) aims at providing users with short text units that answer specific, well-formed natural language questions. A two stage architecture is widely adopted for this task consisting of a document retrieval step followed by an answer extraction step. In such an approach two main problems need to be addressed to reduce the search space: better selecting answer bearing passages in the document retrieval step and better pinpointing answers in the answer extraction step. We investigate the effect of word-based and linguistic-based features for the identification of answer-bearing sentences and answer candidates in a QA system and show that both play a significant role. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.
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Saggion, H., & Gaizauskas, R. (2006). Experiments in passage selection and answer identification for question answering. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4139 LNAI, pp. 291–302). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11816508_30
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