A Methodology to Develop Answers to Definitional Questions
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Definitional Question Answering task is usually proposed as the retrieval of a set of text fragments that contain information relevant to the target to define. Following this principle, a systematic approach to obtain which information is relevant is proposed, along with a new evaluation process. Finally, the paper describes the elaboration of a corpus of definitions in order to produce a gold standard model for use in the evaluation of definitional question answering systems.
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