'Natural Language Processing (NLP)' Category
POTW 3/19/07: Discussion of “An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System”
Better late than never is what they say… I’ve been absolutely slammed this week trying to get out a proposal and finish up my slides for ApacheCon Europe. So, here goes on the POTW for this week. If you recall, we are reading “An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System” by Brill, [...]
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POTW 3/19/07: “An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System” by Brill, et. al.
Paper of the Week for March 19, 2007 is “An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System” by Bill, Dumais and Banko. Let’s have a look at how Microsoft does QA, shall we?
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POTW 3/11/07: Discussion of “COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering”
This week we are digging deeper into the published work of Language Computer Corporation’s QA (they have an online demo on their home page) system by looking at COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering by Moldovan, Clark, Harabagiu and Maiorano. If you recall from a few weeks ago, the LCC system was the top [...]
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POTW: 3/11/07: “COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering” by Moldovan, et. al.
Following on from last weeks look at Language Computer Corporations TREC 2003 entry, we are going to dig deeper into the theorem prover part of the system and look at “COGEX: A Logic Prover for Question Answering” by Moldovan, et. al.
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POTW 3/4/07: Answer Mining by Combining Extraction Techniques with Abductive Reasoning by Harabagiu, et. al.
This weeks paper, “Answer Mining by Combining Extraction Techniques with Abductive Reasoning“, lays out, at a high level, the capabilities of the highest performing QA system at TREC 2003, namely Language Computer Corporation’s QA system. The first section or two lay out the groundwork for the competition, much as was already done in the Voorhees [...]
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