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title = "Summarizing Answers for Complicated Questions",
author = "Zhou, Liang and
Lin, Chin-Yew and
Hovy, Eduard",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Gangemi, Aldo and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Odijk, Jan and
Tapias, Daniel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}{'}06)",
month = may,
year = "2006",
address = "Genoa, Italy",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/443_pdf.pdf",
abstract = "Recent work in several computational linguistics (CL) applications (especially question answering) has shown the value of semantics (in fact, many people argue that the current performance ceiling experienced by so many CL applications derives from their inability to perform any kind of semantic processing). But the absence of a large semantic information repository that provides representations for sentences prevents the training of statistical CL engines and thus hampers the development of such semantics-enabled applications. This talk refers to recent work in several projects that seek to annotate large volumes of text with shallower or deeper representations of some semantic phenomena. It describes one of the essential problemscreating, managing, and annotating (at large scale) the meanings of words, and outlines the Omega ontology, being built at ISI, that acts as term repository. The talk illustrates how one can proceed from words via senses to concepts, and how the annotation process can help verify good concept decisions and expose bad ones. Much of this work is performed in the context of the OntoNotes project, joint with BBN, the Universities of Colorado and Pennsylvania, and ISI, that is working to build a corpus of about 1M words (English, Chinese, and Arabic), annotated for shallow semantics, over the next few years.",
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%T Summarizing Answers for Complicated Questions
%A Zhou, Liang
%A Lin, Chin-Yew
%A Hovy, Eduard
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%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Gangemi, Aldo
%Y Maegaard, Bente
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%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Tapias, Daniel
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%D 2006
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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%X Recent work in several computational linguistics (CL) applications (especially question answering) has shown the value of semantics (in fact, many people argue that the current performance ceiling experienced by so many CL applications derives from their inability to perform any kind of semantic processing). But the absence of a large semantic information repository that provides representations for sentences prevents the training of statistical CL engines and thus hampers the development of such semantics-enabled applications. This talk refers to recent work in several projects that seek to annotate large volumes of text with shallower or deeper representations of some semantic phenomena. It describes one of the essential problemscreating, managing, and annotating (at large scale) the meanings of words, and outlines the Omega ontology, being built at ISI, that acts as term repository. The talk illustrates how one can proceed from words via senses to concepts, and how the annotation process can help verify good concept decisions and expose bad ones. Much of this work is performed in the context of the OntoNotes project, joint with BBN, the Universities of Colorado and Pennsylvania, and ISI, that is working to build a corpus of about 1M words (English, Chinese, and Arabic), annotated for shallow semantics, over the next few years.
%U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/443_pdf.pdf
Markdown (Informal)
[Summarizing Answers for Complicated Questions](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/443_pdf.pdf) (Zhou et al., LREC 2006)
ACL
- Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, and Eduard Hovy. 2006. Summarizing Answers for Complicated Questions. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).