Exploiting Paraphrases in a Question Answering System

Exploiting Paraphrases in a Question Answering System

inproceedings
Fabio Rinaldi, J Dowdall, K Kaljurand, M Hess, D Mollà Aliod
We present a Question Answering system for technical domains which makes an intelligent use of paraphrases to increase the likelihood of finding the answer to the user's question. The system implements a simple and efficient logic representation of questions and answers that maps paraphrases to the same underlying semantic representation. Further, paraphrases of technical terminology are dealt with by a separate process that detects surface variants.
Exploiting Paraphrases in a Question Answering System
2003
ACL-2003, Second International Workshop on Paraphrasing: Paraphrase Acquisition and Applications
25-32
July
Sapporo, Japan