USING DEPENDENCY PATHS FOR ANSWERING DEFINITION QUESTIONS ON THE WEB

Alejandro Figueroa, John Atkinson

2009

Abstract

This work presents a new approach to automatically answer definition questions from the Web. This approach learns n-gram language models from lexicalised dependency paths taken from abstracts provided byWikipedia and uses context information to identify candidate descriptive sentences containing target answers. Results using a prototype of the model showed the effectiveness of lexicalised dependency paths as salient indicators for the presence of definitions in natural language texts.

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in Harvard Style

Figueroa A. and Atkinson J. (2009). USING DEPENDENCY PATHS FOR ANSWERING DEFINITION QUESTIONS ON THE WEB . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-81-4, pages 638-645. DOI: 10.5220/0001833806380645


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist09,
author={Alejandro Figueroa and John Atkinson},
title={USING DEPENDENCY PATHS FOR ANSWERING DEFINITION QUESTIONS ON THE WEB},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2009},
pages={638-645},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001833806380645},
isbn={978-989-8111-81-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - USING DEPENDENCY PATHS FOR ANSWERING DEFINITION QUESTIONS ON THE WEB
SN - 978-989-8111-81-4
AU - Figueroa A.
AU - Atkinson J.
PY - 2009
SP - 638
EP - 645
DO - 10.5220/0001833806380645