Linguistic Knowledge And Question Answering

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  • Gosse Bouma
چکیده

The availability of robust and deep syntactic parsing can improve the performance of all modules of a Question Answering system. In this article, this is illustrated using examples from our QA system Joost, a Dutch QA system which has been used for both open and closed domain QA. The system can make use of information found in the fully parsed version of the document collections. We demonstrate that this improves the performance of various components of the system, such as answer extraction and selection, lexical acquisition, off-line relation extraction, and passage retrieval. RÉSUMÉ. Une analyse syntaxique profonde et robuste améliore la performance d’un système de question-réponse. Dans cet article, nous le montrerons en donnant des exemples de notre système QR, appelé Joost. C’est un système néerlandais, qui a été appliqué au domaine général ainsi qu’au domaine restreint. Le système utilise l’information contenue dans une version analysée syntaxiquement du corpus des documents. Nous montrerons que l’utilisation de l’information syntaxique améliore certains modules de Joost, comme l’extraction et l’ordonnancement final des réponses, l’acquisition automatique d’information lexicale, l’extraction de faits hors ligne et la recherche de passages.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006