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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…
Using a Probabilistic Class-Based Lexicon for Lexical Ambiguity Resolution
Detlef Prescher, Stefan Riezler, Mats Rooth
This paper presents the use of probabilistic class-based lexica for disambiguation in target-word selection. Our method employs minimal but precise contextual information for disam…
Inside-Outside Estimation of a Lexicalized PCFG for German
Franz Beil, Glenn Carroll, Detlef Prescher +2
The paper describes an extensive experiment in inside-outside estimation of a lexicalized probabilistic context free grammar for German verb-final clauses. Grammar and formalism fe…
Inducing a Semantically Annotated Lexicon via EM-Based Clustering
Mats Rooth, Stefan Riezler, Detlef Prescher +2
We present a technique for automatic induction of slot annotations for subcategorization frames, based on induction of hidden classes in the EM framework of statistical estimation.…
Valence Induction with a Head-Lexicalized PCFG
Glenn Carroll, Mats Rooth
This paper presents an experiment in learning valences (subcategorization frames) from a 50 million word text corpus, based on a lexicalized probabilistic context free grammar. Dis…
Epistemic NP Modifiers
Dorit Abusch, Mats Rooth
The paper considers participles such as "unknown", "identified" and "unspecified", which in sentences such as "Solange is staying in an unknown hotel" have readings equivalent to a…