Mining Web Snippets to Answer List Questions

Figueroa, A. and Neumann, G.

This paper presents ListWebQA, a question answering system that is aimed specifically at extracting answers to list questions exclusively from web snippets. Answers are identified in web snippets by means of their semantic and syntactic similarities. Initial results show that they are a promising source of answers to list questions.

Cite as: Figueroa, A. and Neumann, G. (2007). Mining Web Snippets to Answer List Questions. In Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining (AIDM 2007), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. CRPIT, 84. Ong, K.-L., Li, W. and Gao, J., Eds. ACS. 61-71.

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