New Directions in Question Answering
Papers from 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium
Mark T. Maybury, Program Chair
Technical Report SS-03-07. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Preface / ix
Mark Maybury
Putting Your Customers’ Questions to Work / 1
Brian Ulicny
Toward a Question Answering Roadmap / 8
Mark Maybury
Recognizing and Organizing Opinions Expressed in the World Press / 12
Janyce Wiebe, Eric Breck, Chris Buckley, Claire Cardie, Paul Davis, Bruce Fraser, Diane Litman, David Pierce, Ellen Riloff, Theresa Wilson, David Day, and Mark Maybury
Combining Low-Level and Summary Representations of Opinions for Multi-Perspective Question Answering / 20
Claire Cardie, Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson, and Diane Litman
TimeML: Robust Specification of Event and Temporal Expressions in Text / 28
James Pustejovsky, José Castaño, Robert Ingria, Roser Saurí, Robert Gaizauskas, Andrea Setzer, Graham Katz, and Dragomir Radev
Temporal Information Extraction for Temporal Question Answering / 35
Frank Schilder and Christopher Habel
Some Issues in Dialogue-Based Question-Answering / 45
Arne J&oulm;nsson and Magnus Merkel
A Technique to Resolve Contradictory Answers / 49
Catherine Blake
AQUA: An Ontology-Driven Question Answering System / 53
Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, and John Domingue
Knowledge Tracking: Answering Implicit Questions / 58
Reinhard Stolle, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi, Richard Crouch, and Valeria de Paiva
An Automatically Generated Computer-Assisted Question-Answer System to Acquire Knowledge / 62
Safeya M. Mamish, Shawkat K. Guirguis, Adel El-Zoghabi, and Ashraf M. Emam
Inference Web: Portable and Sharable Explanations for Question Answering / 67
Deborah L. McGuinness and Paulo Pinheiro da Silva
Knowledge-Driven Text Interpretation and Question-Answering: Some Current Activities at Boeing Math and Computing Technology / 72
Peter Clark, Phil Harrison, Tom Jenkins, John Thompson, and Rick Wojcik
Towards a Theory of Question-Answering Interfaces to Databases / 73
Ana-Maria Popescu, Oren Etzioni, and Henry Kautz
Knowledge Representation for Question Answering / 75
Deborah L. McGuinness
Reuse in Question Answering: A Preliminary Study / 78
Marc Light, Abraham Ittycheriah, Andrew Latto, and Nancy McCracken
What do You Mean? Finding Answers to Complex Questions / 87
Anne R. Diekema, Ozgur Yilmazel, Jiangping Chen, Sarah Harwell, Lan He, and Elizabeth D. Liddy
HITIQA: A Data Driven Approach to Interactive Question Answering: A Preliminary Report / 94
Sharon Small, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Tomek Strzalkowski, and Liu Ting
Panel on Web-Based Question Answering / 105
Dragomir R. Radev
Issues in Extraction and Categorization for Question Answering / 107
David Eichmann
Hybridization in Question Answering Systems / 116
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, David Ferrucci, John Prager, and Christopher Welty
Question Answering Challenge (QAC-1): An Evaluation of Question Answering Tasks at the NTCIR Workshop 3 / 122
Jun'ichi Fukumoto, Tsuneaki Kato, and Fumito Masui
Answer Selection and Confidence Estimation / 134
Jinxi Xu, Ana Licuanan, Jonathan May, Scott Miller, and Ralph Weischedel
The Use of Sentence Similarity as a Semantic Relevance Metric for Question Answering / 138
Marco De Boni and Suresh Manandhar
Answering Questions about Moving Objects in Surveillance Videos / 145
Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Chris Stauffer, and Eric Grimson
Symposium Organization and Contents
Mary Maybury
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