A source expansion algorithm automatically extends a given text corpus with related content from large external sources such as the Web. The expanded corpus is not intended for …
Question–answering systems make good use of knowledge bases (KBs, eg, Wikipedia) for responding to definition queries. Typically, systems extract relevant facts from articles …
A Figueroa, J Atkinson - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2011 - ojs.aaai.org
In the context of question-answering systems, there are several strategies for scoring candidate answers to definition queries including centroid vectors, bi-term and context …
In this chapter, a brief history of QA systems will be introduced. In addition, different components of a QA system will be described in detail. Components of the QA architectures …
Chat-bots have seen increased public interest over the last few years. The main focus of scientific publications, as well as that of existing implementations, however, has been almost …
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Most current systems apply flat pattern and flat centroid words, which are extracted only by relative position to question target, to identify definition sentences. In contrast to the flat …
Web users increasingly treat the Web as a very large knowledge base and use it to acquire all kinds of knowledge. In this article, we introduce a method that leverages the information …