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Searching for Definitional Answers on the Web Using Surface Patterns
April 2009 (vol. 42 no. 4)
pp. 68-76
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Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann, John Atkinson, "Searching for Definitional Answers on the Web Using Surface Patterns," Computer, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 68-76, April, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MC.2009.129,
author = {Alejandro Figueroa and Günter Neumann and John Atkinson},
title = {Searching for Definitional Answers on the Web Using Surface Patterns},
journal ={Computer},
volume = {42},
number = {4},
issn = {0018-9162},
year = {2009},
pages = {68-76},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2009.129},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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PY - 2009
KW - text retrieval
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Alejandro Figueroa, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Günter Neumann, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
John Atkinson, University of Concepcion
A novel question-answering system employs query rewriting techniques to increase the probability of extracting nuggets from various Web snippets by matching surface patterns. Experimental results show the approach's promise versus existing techniques.

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Index Terms:
text retrieval, question-answering systems, natural-language processing, text mining
Citation:
Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann, John Atkinson, "Searching for Definitional Answers on the Web Using Surface Patterns," Computer, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 68-76, Apr. 2009, doi:10.1109/MC.2009.129
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