FINDING DISTINCT ANSWERS IN WEB SNIPPETS

Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann

2008

Abstract

This paper presents ListWebQA , a question answering system aimed specifically at discovering answers to list questions in web snippets. ListWebQA retrieves snippets likely to contain answers by means of a query rewriting strategy, and extracts answers according to their syntactic and semantic similarities afterwards. These similarities are determined by means of a set of surface syntactic patterns and a Latent Semantic Kernel. Results show that our strategy is effective in strengthening current web question answering techniques.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Figueroa A. and Neumann G. (2008). FINDING DISTINCT ANSWERS IN WEB SNIPPETS . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-27-2, pages 26-33. DOI: 10.5220/0001518900260033

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist08,
author={Alejandro Figueroa and Günter Neumann},
title={FINDING DISTINCT ANSWERS IN WEB SNIPPETS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2008},
pages={26-33},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001518900260033},
isbn={978-989-8111-27-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - FINDING DISTINCT ANSWERS IN WEB SNIPPETS
SN - 978-989-8111-27-2
AU - Figueroa A.
AU - Neumann G.
PY - 2008
SP - 26
EP - 33
DO - 10.5220/0001518900260033