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    <abstract>Although answering list questions is not a new research area, answering them automatically still remains a challenge. The median F-score of systems that participated in TREC 2007 Question Answering track is still very low (0.085) while 74% of the questions had a median F-score of 0. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to answering list questions. This approach is based on the hypothesis that answer instances of a list question co-occur in the documents and sentences related to the topic of the question. We use a clustering method to group the candidate answers that co-occur more often. To pinpoint the right cluster, we use the target and the question keywords as spies to return the cluster that contains these keywords.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Answering List Questions using Co-occurrence and Clustering
%A Razmara, Majid
%A Kosseim, Leila
%S Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08)
%D 2008
%8 may
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Marrakech, Morocco
%F razmara-kosseim-2008-answering
%X Although answering list questions is not a new research area, answering them automatically still remains a challenge. The median F-score of systems that participated in TREC 2007 Question Answering track is still very low (0.085) while 74% of the questions had a median F-score of 0. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to answering list questions. This approach is based on the hypothesis that answer instances of a list question co-occur in the documents and sentences related to the topic of the question. We use a clustering method to group the candidate answers that co-occur more often. To pinpoint the right cluster, we use the target and the question keywords as spies to return the cluster that contains these keywords.
%U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/814_paper.pdf

Markdown (Informal)

[Answering List Questions using Co-occurrence and Clustering](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/814_paper.pdf) (Razmara & Kosseim, LREC 2008)

• Answering List Questions using Co-occurrence and Clustering (Razmara & Kosseim, LREC 2008)

ACL

• Majid Razmara and Leila Kosseim. 2008. Answering List Questions using Co-occurrence and Clustering. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).