A methodology to develop answers to definitional questions

This report tries to give a general vision of the state of art of the task of definitional question answering, by describing the task, illustrating the current interest on it, pointing out its main evaluation methods and the competitions that include subtasks of definitional question answering. The...

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Autor: Kanaan Izquierdo, Samir|||0000-0002-6564-0557
Tipo de documento: Informe
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Lenguaje:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/87258
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/87258
Nivel de acceso:Acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Definitional question answering
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Sumario:This report tries to give a general vision of the state of art of the task of definitional question answering, by describing the task, illustrating the current interest on it, pointing out its main evaluation methods and the competitions that include subtasks of definitional question answering. The generical architecture of definitional question answering systems is presented, along with a description of the main techniques applied in the resolution of this problem. Finally, most important results in the task are presented and the main conclusions are exposed.