FEUP at SemEval-2018 Task 5: An Experimental Study of a Question Answering System

Carla Abreu, Eugénio Oliveira


Abstract
We present the approach developed at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto to participate in SemEval-2018 Task 5: Counting Events and Participants within Highly Ambiguous Data covering a very long tail. The work described here presents the experimental system developed to extract entities from news articles for the sake of Question Answering. We propose a supervised learning approach to enable the recognition of two different types of entities: Locations and Participants. We also discuss the use of distance-based algorithms (using Levenshtein distance and Q-grams) for the detection of documents’ closeness based on the entities extracted. For the experiments, we also used a multi-agent system that improved the performance.
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S18-1109
Volume:
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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667–673
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https://aclanthology.org/S18-1109
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S18-1109
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Carla Abreu and Eugénio Oliveira. 2018. FEUP at SemEval-2018 Task 5: An Experimental Study of a Question Answering System. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 667–673, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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