Searching for definitional answers on the web using surface patterns

Alejandro Figueroa; Günter Neumann; John Atkinson

doi:10.1109/MC.2009.129

Searching for definitional answers on the web using surface patterns

Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann, John Atkinson

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Abstract

A novel question-answering system employs query rewriting techniques to increase the probability of extracting nuggets from various Web snippets by matching surface patterns. Experimental results show the approach's promise versus existing techniques.

Original language	English
Pages	68-76
Number of pages	9
Volume	42
No	4
Specialist publication	Computer
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2009.129
State	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Context
Data mining
Epilepsy
Feature extraction
Matched filters
Natural-language processing
Pattern matching
Probability density function
Question-answering systems
Text mining
Text retrieval

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