Using IS-A Relation Patterns for Factoid Questions in Question Answering Systems
Byonghyo Shim, Young-Man Ko, Jung-Kak Seo · IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems · 2006
This paper describes a flexible strategy to generate candidate answers for factoid questions in Question Answering (QA) systems. Most QA systems have predefined the conceptual categories for candidate answers. But if the conceptual category of answers to any question is not prepared in the QA system, it is hard to extract correct answers to that question. Therefore, we propose an extraction method for IS-A relation patterns which describe relations between the nominal target concepts of question and candidate answers. The extracted IS-A relation patterns can be used for questions with an unexpected target concept.