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Experiments with open-domain textual Question Answering

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Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1 table of contents

Saarbrücken, Germany

Pages: 292 - 298

Year of Publication: 2000

ISBN:1-55860-717-X

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Sanda M. Harabagiu	Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Marius A. Paşca	Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Steven J. Maiorano	Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

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: Deutsches Forschungszentrum fiir Ktinstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
: Loria
: Ministète de la Recherche Français
: Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg
: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
: Ministerium für Bildung, Kultur und Wissenschaft des Saarlandes
: Université; Nancy 2
: Universität des Saarlandes

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Association for Computational Linguistics Morristown, NJ, USA

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DOI Bookmark:	10.3115/990820.990863

ABSTRACT

This paper describes the integration of several knowledge-based natural language processing techniques into a Question Answering system, capable of mining textual answers from large collections of texts. Surprizing quality is achieved when several lightweight knowledge-based NLP techniques complement mostly shallow, surface-based approaches.

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