passage retrieval
Non Factoid Japanese Question Answering through Passage Retrieval that Is Weighted Based on Types of Answers
... We constructed a system for answering non-factoid Japanese questions. An example of a non-factoid question is “Why are people opposed to the Pri- vate Information Protection Law?” We used vari- ous methods of ...
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Question Analysis and Answer Passage Retrieval for Opinion Question Answering Systems
... answer passage retrieval in opinion QA ...information retrieval system and the question polarity is detected to retain relevant sentences which have the same polarity as the ...answer passage ...
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Statistical Machine Translation based Passage Retrieval for Cross Lingual Question Answering
... document retrieval, includ- ing proposed SMT based passage retrieval, are all identical to the proposed method, this comparison is focused only on the difference in the document re- trieval ...
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Passage Retrieval Using Answer Type Profiles in Question Answering
... Abstract. Retrieving answer containing passages is a challenging task in Question Answer- ing. In this paper, we describe a novel passage retrieval methodology using answer type profiles. Our methodology ...
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The Answer is at your Fingertips: Improving Passage Retrieval for Web Question Answering with Search Behavior Data
... While general and flexible, our approach makes two key assumptions, resulting in potential limi- tations. First, our approach is primarily targeted (and evaluated for) informational questions – that is, questions for ...
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Boosting Passage Retrieval through Reuse in Question Answering
... the passage retrieval step enriches the keyword query representing user factoid question with feature different from merely lexical paraphrases of question ...answer passage to the user queried ...
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Question Analysis and Answer Passage Retrieval for Opinion Question Answering Systems
... Rel2T shows the performance of using answer passages relevant to the six topics, that is, the original relevant documents from NTCIR CLIR task. Rel2Q shows the performance of using answer passages relevant to the ...
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Automated Historical Fact Checking by Passage Retrieval, Word Statistics, and Virtual Question Answering
... In previous studies, three main approaches for answering True-or-False questions were pre- sented: passage retrieval (Kano, 2014), conversion to factoid-style question answering (Kanayama et al., 2012), and ...
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Integrating Linguistic Knowledge in Passage Retrieval for Question Answering
... The passage retrieval component in Joost includes an interface to seven off-the shelf IR systems. One of the systems supported is Lucene from the Apache Jakarta project (Jakarta, 2004). Lucene is a widely- ...
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Parallel computing for passage retrieval
... sequential passage retrieval results used for comparison on the BASE1 ...costly passage retrieval can be. Retrieval effectiveness is increased on all precision points when applying ...
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Passage Retrieval for Information Extraction using Distant Supervision
... the passage retrieval al- gorithm for information extraction and propose a novel distant supervision approach to obtain a list of weighted keywords for each ...
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Exploiting Dynamic Passage Retrieval for Spoken Question Recognition and Context Processing towards Speech-driven Information Access Dialogue
... the passage retrieval score and by rescoring them. Two passage retrieval methods are ...of passage defined in ad- vance (referred as static ...the passage size of 3 sentences ...
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A Practical Passage-based Approach for Chinese Document Retrieval
... found passage retrieval based on language models can provide more reliable performance than retrieval based on full ...that passage-based retrieval can get better performance than ...
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PLIERS AT TREC8
... utilizing Passage Retrieval and the position data which is recorded in Inverted files, that is costs of searching an Index with postings only data as compared with searching on one that contains position ...
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Answer Extraction
... Errors Passage retrieval failed 16% Answer is not an entity 4% Answer of unhandled type: money 10% Answer of unhandled type: misc 8% Entity extraction failed 2% Entity classification fai[r] ...
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Using Random Walks for Question focused Sentence Retrieval
... a passage retrieval mechanism that finds sentences relevant to a given question, providing in- put to the question answering component of our sys- tem, the improvement in average TRDR score is very ...
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Filling Knowledge Base Gaps for Distant Supervision of Relation Extraction
... our passage retrieval models are not used in MUL- TIR, we created another baseline MULTIRLEX by adding these features into MULTIR in order to rule out the improvement from additional infor- ...
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Results of the sixth edition of the BioASQ Challenge
... The “UNCC” team participated in Phase B, de- ploying lexical chaining techniques (Reeve et al., 2006) for sentence similarity and ranking to ex- tract summaries from related snippets and effi- ciently fuse them in an ...
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Scariest Passage
... Benjamin Percy, whose new novel Red Moon updates the werewolf mythos for our era, loves the way suspense ratchets up before something terrible is revealed. When I asked him to choose a favorite passage from ...
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