We investigate the effectiveness of lexical,topic and structural similarities on the semantic relevance betwee...
Xin Li~(1,2,3) Liu Wenyin~(2,3,+) Enhong Chen~(1,3) Dawei Hu~(1,2,3) ~1Department of Computer Science and Technology,University of Science & Technology of China,Hefei,China ~2 Department of Computer Science,City University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong,China ~3Joint Research Lab of Excellence,CityU-USTC Advanced Research Institute,Suzhou,China
A passage retrieval strategy for web-based question answering （QA） systems is proposed in our QA system. It firstly analyzes the question based on semantic patterns to obtain its syntactic and semantic information and then form initial queries. The queries are used to retrieve documents from the World Wide Web （WWW） using the Google search engine. The queries are then rewritten to form queries for passage retrieval in order to improve the precision. The relations between keywords in the question are employed in our query rewrite method. The experimental result on the question set of the TREC-2003 passage task shows that our system performs well for factoid questions.
LI XinHU DaweiLI HuanHAO TianyongCHEN EnhonLIU Wenyin
