Learning Based Method

We present a learning-based method to identify single-snippet answers to definition questions in question answering systems for document collections. Our method combines and extends two previous techniques that were based …...

In many languages the use of compound words is very productive. A common practice to reduce sparsity consists in splitting com- pounds in the training data. When this is done, …...

In this paper, we introduce a hybrid method to associate English collocations with sense class members chosen from WordNet. Our combinational approach includes a learning-based method, a paraphrase-based method and …...