LING 573 - Natural Language Processing Systems and Applications
Spring 2011
Readings

• Elif Aktolga, James Allan, and David A. Smith. 2011. Passage Reranking for Question Answering Using Syntactic Structures and Answer Types, in P. Clough et al. (Eds.): ECIR 2011, LNCS 6611,Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 617-628
• Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-yen Kan, Tat-seng Chua. 2005. Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations, in Proceedings of SIGIR 2005.
• Susan Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy Lin, Andrew Ng, Web Question Answering: Is More Always Better?, Proceedings of SIGIR 20002, 2002
• Abdessamad Echihabi, Ulf Hermjakob, Eduard Hovy, Daniel Marcu, Eric Melz, Deepak Ravichandran (2005). How to select an answer string? Advances in Textual Question Answering, Tomek Strzalkowski and Sanda Harabagiu eds., Kluwer,.
• H. Fang. 2008. A Re-examination of Query Expansion Using Lexical Resources, Proceedings of ACL 2008
• K Hacioglu and W Ward. 2003. Question classification with support vector machines and error correcting codes. In HLT, pages 28-30.
• Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Christine Clark, Mitchell Bowden, Andrew Hickl and Patrick Wang, Employing Two Question Answering Systems in TREC-2005, Proceedings of TREC 2005, 2005.
• L. Hirschman and R. Gaizauskas. Natural language question answering: The view from here. Natural Language Engineering, 7(4):275-300, 2001.
• Hovy, E.H., L. Gerber, U. Hermjakob, M. Junk, and C.-Y. Lin. 2001. Question Answering in Webclopedia. Proceedings of the TREC-9 Conference. NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
• Hovy, E.H., L. Gerber, U. Hermjakob, C.-Y. Lin, and D. Ravichandran. 2001. Toward Semantics-Based Answer Pinpointing. Proceedings of the DARPA Human Language Technology Conference (HLT). San Diego, CA.
• Huang, Z., M. Thint, and Z. Qin. 2008. Question Classification using HeadWords and their Hypernyms,in Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 927-936.
• A. Ittycheriah, M. Franz, W-J. Zhu, and A. Ratnaparkhi. 2001. Question Answering Using Maximum Entropy Components. In Proceedings of NAACL 2001, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• V. Krishnan, S. Das, and S. Chakrabarti. 2005. Enhanced Answer Type Inference from Questions using Sequential Models. In Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005
• C. Kwok, O. Etzioni, and D. Weld, "Scaling Question Answering to the Web", (WWW10) May 2001.
• X. Li and D. Roth, Learning Question Classifiers: The Role of Semantic Information, Journal of Natural Language Engineering 11(4), 2005.
• Jimmy Lin. An Exploration of the Principles Underlying Redundancy-Based Factoid Question Answering. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 27(2):1-55, 2007.
• Bernardo Magnini; Matteo Negri; Roberto Prevete; Hristo Tanev. 2002. Is It the Right Answer? Exploiting Web Redundancy for Answer Validation, in Proceedings of ACL-2002.
• Donald Metzler and W. Bruce Croft. 2005. Analysis of Statistical Question Classification for Fact-Based Questions ,Information Retrieval Volume 8, Number 3, 481-504.
• Gilad Mishne and Maarten de Rijke. 2005. Query Formulation for Answer Projection, in Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval, 2005.
• G. Ramakrishnan, S. Chakrabarti, D. Paranjpe, and Pushpak Battacharyya. 2004. Is Question Answering an Acquired Skill?, in WWW2004, p. 111-120.
• D. Ravichandran and E. Hovy, Learning Surface Text Patterns for a Question Answering System, Proceedings of ACL 2002, 2002.
• Deepak Ravichandran, Eduard Hovy and Franz Josef Och. 2003. Statistical QA - Classifier vs Re-ranker: What's the difference?, in Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering--Machine Learning and Beyond, Sapporo, Japan.
• Majid Razmara, Andrew Fee and Leila Kosseim. 2007. Concordia University at the TREC 2007 QA track, in Proceedings of TREC-2007.
• Dan Shen and Mirella Lapata. 2007. Using Semantic Roles to Improve Question Answering, in Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, pp. 12-21, Prague, June 2007.
• M. Soubbotin, Patterns of Potential Answer Expressions as Clues to the Right Answers, TREC-10, 2002
• S. Tellex , Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Aaron Fernandes, and Gregory Marton. 2003. Quantitative Evaluation of Passage Retrieval Algorithms for Question Answering, in in Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR conference
• J. Tiedemann and J. Mur. 2008. Simple is Best: Experiments with Different Document Segmentation Strategies for Passage Retrieval, in Proceedings of the 2nd IR4QA Workshop
• J. Xu and W.B. Croft. 1996. Query Expansion Using Local and Global Document Analysis, in Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference
• D. Zhang and W. Lee. 2003. Question classification using support vector machines. In SIGIR, pages 26-32.