QUALIFIER: Question Answering by Lexical Fabric and External Resources

One of the major challenges in TREC-style question-answering (QA) is to overcome the mismatch in the lexical representations in the query space and document space. This is particularly severe in QA as exact answers, rather than documents, are required in response to questions. Most current approaches overcome the mismatch problem by employing either data redundancy strategy through the use of Web or linguistic resources. This paper investigates the integration of lexical relations and Web knowledge to tackle this problem. The results obtained on TREC11 QA corpus indicate that our approach is both feasible and effective.

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