Publications (5)
Morphological Cues for Lexical Semantics
Marc Light
Most natural language processing tasks require lexical semantic information. Automated acquisition of this information would thus increase the robustness and portability of NLP sys…
How to Evaluate your Question Answering System Every Day and Still Get Real Work Done
Eric Breck, John D. Burger, Lisa Ferro +4
In this paper, we report on Qaviar, an experimental automated evaluation system for question answering applications. The goal of our research was to find an automatically calculate…
Classification in Feature-based Default Inheritance Hierarchies
Marc Light
Increasingly, inheritance hierarchies are being used to reduce redundancy in natural language processing lexicons. Systems that utilize inheritance hierarchies need to be able to i…
Knowledge Representation for Lexical Semantics: Is Standard First Order Logic Enough?
Marc Light, Lenhart Schubert
Natural language understanding applications such as interactive planning and face-to-face translation require extensive inferencing. Many of these inferences are based on the meani…
Looking Under the Hood : Tools for Diagnosing your Question Answering Engine
Eric Breck, Marc Light, Gideon S. Mann +4
In this paper we analyze two question answering tasks : the TREC-8 question answering task and a set of reading comprehension exams. First, we show that Q/A systems perform better…