ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of N03-1004
Paper Title:
IN QUESTION ANSWERING, TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
IN QUESTION ANSWERING, TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
Authors: Jennifer Chu-Carroll and Krzysztof Czuba and John Prager and Abraham Ittycheriah
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- algorithm
- answer finding
- answer ranking
- answer resolution
- answer selection
- centroid method
- classification
- classifiers
- databases
- disambiguation
- entity normalization
- identification
- language processing
- learning
- local context analysis
- machine learning
- machine translation
- maximum entropy
- multi-agent question answering
- multi-level answer resolution
- multi-level resolution
- natural language processing
- nlp
- normalization
- parsing
- passage retrieval
- pos tagging
- processing
- qa process
- qa system
- question analysis
- question answering
- question answering system
- question classification
- ranking
- recognition
- retrieval process
- scoring
- scoring system
- search
- search engine
- search engines
- searching
- selection algorithm
- sense disambiguation
- statistical methods
- statistical techniques
- tagging
- type identification
- voting
- voting mechanism
- word sense disambiguation
Other assigned terms:
- advanced question answering
- annotation
- annotation process
- answer type
- approach
- candidate answer
- compounding
- confidence score
- confidence scores
- corpora
- data set
- distribution
- encyclopedia
- encyclopedia britannica
- entropy
- entropy formulation
- evaluation metrics
- experimental results
- external knowledge
- external knowledge source
- fact
- feature
- human judgments
- implementation
- intelligence
- knowledge
- likelihood
- local context
- logical forms
- mapping
- measure
- mechanisms
- method
- named entity
- names
- natural language
- passage
- performance evaluation
- person names
- precision
- predictive annotation
- process
- processing time
- query
- question types
- ranking candidate
- research and development
- retrieval component
- runtime
- selection model
- semantic
- semantic classes
- semantic type
- sentences
- statistical approach
- synonyms
- syntactic structures
- system performance
- technique
- test set
- text
- text corpora
- text corpus
- text documents
- training
- training data
- trec corpus
- tree
- word
- word sense
- wordnet
- words
