Tree Distance in Answer Retrieval and Parser Evaluation

Martin Emms

2005

Abstract

The use of syntactic tree-distance as a surrogate for semantic distance in an answer retrieval task is investigated. The feasibility of this is confirmed by showing that retrieval performance increases with parse quality, and an application of this to parser evaluation is discussed. Variant definitions of tree-distance involving parameters such as whole vs sub-tree, node weighting, wild-card trees and lexical emphasis are compared with each other and with sub-string distance.

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Emms M. (2005). Tree Distance in Answer Retrieval and Parser Evaluation . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2005) ISBN 972-8865-23-6X, pages 155-160. DOI: 10.5220/0002565101550160


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@conference{nlucs05,
author={Martin Emms},
title={Tree Distance in Answer Retrieval and Parser Evaluation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2005)},
year={2005},
pages={155-160},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002565101550160},
isbn={972-8865-23-6X},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2005)
TI - Tree Distance in Answer Retrieval and Parser Evaluation
SN - 972-8865-23-6X
AU - Emms M.
PY - 2005
SP - 155
EP - 160
DO - 10.5220/0002565101550160