Summary: Exploiting Paraphrases in a Question Answering System
Fabio Rinaldi, James Dowdall,
Kaarel Kaljurand, Michael Hess
Institute of Computational Linguistics,
University of Z¨urich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Z¨urich, Switzerland
{rinaldi,dowdall,kalju,hess}
@ifi.unizh.ch
Diego Moll´a
Centre for Language Technology,
Macquarie University,
Sydney NSW 2109, Australia
{diego}@ics.mq.edu.au
Abstract
We present a Question Answering system
for technical domains which makes an in-
telligent use of paraphrases to increase the
likelihood of finding the answer to the user's
question. The system implements a simple

Source: Aliod, Diego Mollá - Department of Computing, Macquarie University
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Anthology

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences