Impact of Question Decomposition on the Quality of Answer Summaries

Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hickl, Sanda Harabagiu


Abstract
Generating answers to complex questions in the form of multi-document summaries requires access to question decomposition methods. In this paper we present three methods for decomposing complex questions and we evaluate their impact on the responsiveness of the answers they enable.
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L06-1494
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Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)
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May
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2006
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Genoa, Italy
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Aldo Gangemi, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Daniel Tapias
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hickl, and Sanda Harabagiu. 2006. Impact of Question Decomposition on the Quality of Answer Summaries. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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