Leveraging Wikipedia Characteristics for Search and Candidate Generation in Question Answering
Authors | Jennifer Chu-Carroll James Fan |
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Publication date | 2011 |
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Leveraging Wikipedia Characteristics for Search and Candidate Generation in Question Answering - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2011, written by Jennifer Chu-Carroll and James Fan.
Overview
Most existing Question Answering (QA) systems adopt a type-and-generate approach to candidate generation that relies on a pre-defined domain ontology. This paper describes a type independent search and candidate generation paradigm for QA that leverages Wikipedia characteristics. This approach is particularly useful for adapting QA systems to domains where reliable answer type identification and type-based answer extraction are not available. Authors present a three-pronged search approach motivated by relations an answer-justifying title-oriented document may have with the question/answer pair. Authors further show how Wikipedia metadata such as anchor texts and redirects can be utilized to effectively extract candidate answers from search results without a type ontology. Authors experimental results show that strategies obtained high binary recall in both search and candidate generation on TREC questions, a domain that has mature answer type extraction technology, as well as on Jeopardy! questions, a domain without such technology. Authors high-recall search and candidate generation approach has also led to high overall QA performance in Watson, end-to-end system.
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Chu-Carroll, Jennifer; Fan, James. (2011). "[[Leveraging Wikipedia Characteristics for Search and Candidate Generation in Question Answering]]". AAAI Press.
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{{cite journal |last1=Chu-Carroll |first1=Jennifer |last2=Fan |first2=James |title=Leveraging Wikipedia Characteristics for Search and Candidate Generation in Question Answering |date=2011 |url=https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Leveraging_Wikipedia_Characteristics_for_Search_and_Candidate_Generation_in_Question_Answering |journal=AAAI Press}}
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Chu-Carroll, Jennifer; Fan, James. (2011). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Leveraging_Wikipedia_Characteristics_for_Search_and_Candidate_Generation_in_Question_Answering">Leveraging Wikipedia Characteristics for Search and Candidate Generation in Question Answering</a>". AAAI Press.
