Question types in digital reference: An evaluation of question taxonomies

A linguistic analysis of question taxonomies

Recent work in automatic question answering has called for question taxonomies as a critical component of the process of machine understanding of questions. There is a long tradition of classifying questions in library reference services, and digital reference services have a strong need for automation to support scalability. Digital reference and question answering systems have the potential t...

Investigating Embedded Question Reuse in Question Answering

The investigation presented in this paper is a novel method in question answering (QA) that enables a QA system to gain performance through reuse of information in the answer to one question to answer another related question. Our analysis shows that a pair of question in a general open domain QA can have embedding relation through their mentions of noun phrase expressions. We present methods f...

Exploiting ItalWordNet Taxonomies in a Question Classification Task

The paper presents a case-study about the exploitation of ItalWordNet for Question Answering. In particular, we will explore the access to ItalWordNet when trying to derive the information that is crucial for singling out the answers to Italian Wh-questions introduced by the interrogative elements Quale and Che.

Question-answering in webtalk: an evaluation study

WebTalk is an intelligent agent that automatically mines company websites to create interactive spoken and chat-based dialog systems. In this paper, we briefly describe the technologies that WebTalk utilizes for extracting task knowledge from websites and answering questions specified in natural language. We elaborate on an evaluation of the question answering component of WebTalk. In particula...

AUTOMATED QUESTION TRIAGE FOR SOCIAL REFERENCE: A STUDY OF ADOPTING DECISION FACTORS FROM DIGITAL REFERENCE by