NDLI: Exploiting Distributional Semantic Models in Question Answering

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Author	Molino, P. Basile, P. Caputo, A. Lops, P. Semeraro, G.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	This paper investigates the role of Distributional Semantic Models (DSMs) in Question Answering (QA), and specifically in a QA system called Question Cube. Question Cube is a framework for QA that combines several techniques to retrieve passages containing the exact answers for natural language questions. It exploits Information Retrieval models to seek candidate answers and Natural Language Processing algorithms for the analysis of questions and candidate answers both in English and Italian. The data source for the answer is an unstructured text document collection stored in search indices. In this paper we propose to exploit DSMs in the Question Cube framework. In DSMs words are represented as mathematical points in a geometric space, also known as semantic space. Words are similar if they are close in that space. Our idea is that DSMs approaches can help to compute relatedness between users' questions and candidate answers by exploiting paradigmatic relations between words. Results of an experimental evaluation carried out on CLEF2010 QA dataset, prove the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Starting Page	146
Ending Page	153
File Size	584551
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467344333
DOI	10.1109/ICSC.2012.53
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-09-19
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Context Semantics Pipelines Search engines Question Answering Vectors Distributional Semantic Models Information Retrieval Engines Pragmatics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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