Investigating the Structure of Procedural Texts for Answering How-to Questions

Estelle Delpech, Patrick Saint-Dizier


Abstract
This paper presents ongoing work dedicated to parsing the textual structure of procedural texts. We propose here a model for the intructional structure and criteria to identify its main components: titles, instructions, warnings and prerequisites. The main aim of this project, besides a contribution to text processing, is to be able to answer procedural questions (How-to? questions), where the answer is a well-formed portion of a text, not a small set of words as for factoid questions.
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
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2008
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Marrakech, Morocco
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Estelle Delpech and Patrick Saint-Dizier. 2008. Investigating the Structure of Procedural Texts for Answering How-to Questions. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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