Title
Opinion Question Answering: Towards a Unified Approach
Abstract
Nowadays, the Web contains large amounts of heterogeneous (factual and opinionated) data, which is becoming equally important for users to access. The need to efficiently manage this information leads to the necessity of building automatic systems that efficiently process it. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a series of techniques whose aim is to improve the performance of an Opinion Question Answering (OQA) system. We include additional resources and processes with the objective of limiting the sources of errors in the different stages involved-question analysis, answer retrieval and filtering, answer re-ranking. We propose new elements that are significant in these stages and show that their use improves the performance of the system. We conclude that the suggested techniques help to influences the task in a positive manner.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.3233/978-1-60750-606-5-511
ECAI
Keywords
Field
DocType
different stage,involved-question analysis,answer re-ranking,unified approach,opinion question answering,new element,large amount,answer retrieval,automatic system,additional resource,positive manner,question answering
Question answering,Information retrieval,Computer science,Filter (signal processing),Limiting
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
215
0922-6389
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
18
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandra Balahur159340.19
Ester Boldrini29412.69
Andrés Montoyo367867.78
Patricio Martínez-Barco428243.37