Question Answering in Webclopedia.
Eduard H. Hovy, Laurie Gerber, Ulf Hermjakob, Michael Junk, Chin-Yew Lin · 2000
SHAPE ADJECTIVE COLOR DISEASE TEXT NARRATIVE* GENERAL-INFO DEFINITION USE EXPRESSION-ORIGIN HISTORY WHY-FAMOUS BIO ANTECEDENT INFLUENCE CONSEQUENT CAUSE-EFFECT METHOD-MEANS CIRCUMSTANCE-MEANS REASON EVALUATION PRO-CON CONTRAST RATING COUNSEL-ADVICE 6 To create the QA Typology, we analyzed 17,384 questions and their answers (downloaded from answers.com); see (Gerber, 2001). The Typology contains 94 nodes, of which 47 are leaf nodes; a section of it appears in Figure 2. Each Typology node has been annotated with examples and typical patterns of expression of both Question and Answer, as indicated in Figure 3 for Proper-Person. Question examples Question templates Who was Johnny Mathis' high school track coach? who be 's Who was Lincoln's Secretary of State? Who was President of Turkmenistan in 1994? who be of Who is the composer of Eugene Onegin? Who is the CEO of General Electric? Actual answers Answer templates Lou Vasquez, track ...