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== References ==
 
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* Wang, Mengqiu and Smith, Noah A. and Mitamura, Teruko.  [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D/D07/D07-1003 What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA]. In EMNLP-CoNLL 2007.
 
* Wang, Mengqiu and Smith, Noah A. and Mitamura, Teruko.  [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D/D07/D07-1003 What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA]. In EMNLP-CoNLL 2007.
 
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* Heilman, Michael and Smith, Noah A.  [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N10-1145 Tree Edit Models for Recognizing Textual Entailments, Paraphrases, and Answers to Questions]. In NAACL-HLT 2010.
 
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* E. Shnarch. Probabilistic Models for Lexical Inference. Ph.D. thesis, Bar Ilan University. 2013.
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* Yao, Xuchen and Van Durme, Benjamin and Callison-Burch, Chris and Clark, Peter.  [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N13-1106 Answer Extraction as Sequence Tagging with Tree Edit Distance]. In NAACL-HLT 2013.
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* Yih, Wen-tau and Chang, Ming-Wei and Meek, Christopher and Pastusiak, Andrzej.  [http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/192357/QA-SentSel-Updated-PostACL.pdf Question Answering Using Enhanced Lexical Semantic Models]. In ACL 2013.
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* Severyn, Aliaksei and Moschitti, Alessandro.  [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D13-1044 Automatic Feature Engineering for Answer Selection and Extraction]. In EMNLP 2013.
  
 
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Revision as of 15:09, 21 January 2014

Answer Sentence Selection

The task of answer sentence selection is designed for the open-domain question answering setting. Given a question and a set of candidate sentences, the task is to choose the correct sentence that contains the exact answer and can sufficiently support the answer choice.


Algorithm Reference MAP MRR
Wang (2007) Wang et al. (2007) 0.603 0.685
H&S (2010) Heilman and Smith (2010) 0.609 0.692
W&M (2010) Wang and Manning (2010) 0.595 0.695
Yao (2013) Yao et al. (2013) 0.631 0.748
Shnarch (2013) - Backward Shnarch (2013) 0.686 0.754
Yih (2013) - LCLR Yih et al. (2013) 0.709 0.770


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