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Open Domain Question/Answering on the WEB

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AI*IA 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2001)

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This paper presents a question/answering system for searching the web. The system accepts natural language questions in Italian and returns as answer a ranked list of document passages together with the URL of the whole document. Three crucial aspects related to the web scenario have been investigated: the linguistic expansion of the query, the optimization of the search boolean expression, the evaluation of the results.

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  1. ITC-irst, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Via Sommarive, 38050, Povo, TN, Italy

    Bernardo Magnini, Matteo Negri & Roberto Prevete

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    Floriana Esposito

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Magnini, B., Negri, M., Prevete, R. (2001). Open Domain Question/Answering on the WEB. In: Esposito, F. (eds) AI*IA 2001: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2175. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45411-X_28

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