Automatically acquiring causal expression patterns from relation-annotated corpora to improve question answering for why-questions

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Higashinaka, Ryuichiro ^a,b   Isozaki, Hideki ^a,b  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Causal expression; Pattern mining; Question answering; Relation annotated corpus

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL EXPRESSION; PATTERN MINING; QUESTION ANSWERING; RELATION-ANNOTATED CORPUS;

ABSTRACTING; DATA MINING; OPTIMIZATION; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 44649199830     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1362782.1362785     Document Type: Conference Paper

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