| Date |
29-7-2004 |
| Time |
15:00 |
| Room/Location |
Conference room (322) |
| Title |
Question Answering on the web: A preliminary study for Spanish language |
| Speaker |
Manuel Montes y Gomez |
| Affiliation |
Computer Science Department, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics of Mexico |
| Link |
https://www.disi.unige.it/person/RovettaS/seminars.html
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| Abstract |
Finding accurate information on the web has become a challenge due to the increment
in the number of documents available on line. Current search engines retrieve relevant
documents to general ?often short? user queries, but fail extracting answers to simple
factual questions in natural language. In this talk I will present the basis of a statistical
question answering system capable to find answers to factual questions in Spanish
language from the web. The presented approach is supported on data redundancy
rather than on sophisticated linguistic analyses of either questions and candidate
answers. Preliminary results show that it is feasible to find concise and accurate
answers from the web to factual questions made in Spanish language. |
