Definitional Question Answering Task

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A Definitional Question Answering Task is a question answering task whose input is a definition question and whose output is a textual definition.



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2005

  • (Lin & Dember-Fushman, 2005) ⇒ Jimmy Lin, and Dina Demner-Fushman. (2005). “Automatically evaluating answers to definition questions.” In: Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
  • (Voorhees, 2005) ⇒ Ellen M. Voorhees. “Using Question Series To Evaluate Question Answering System Effectiveness.” In: Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
    • QUOTE: A definition question asks for interesting information about a particular person or thing such as Who is Vlad the Impaler? or What is a golden parachute?. …
      … Definition questions also require systems to locate information in multiple documents, but in this case the information of interest is much less crisply delineated.

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