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Structured Data-Based Q&A System Using Surface Patterns

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Question Answering (Q&A) systems, unlike other Information Retrieval (IR) systems, aim at providing directly the answer to the user, and not a list of documents in which the correct answer may be found. Our system is based on a data warehouse and provides composite answers made of a dataset and the corresponding chart visualizations. The question translation step is based on a new proposal for surface patterns that incorporate business semantic as well as domain-specific knowldege allowing a better coverage of questions.

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  1. SAP Research, 157/159 rue Anatole France, 92309, Levallois-Perret, France

    Nicolas Kuchmann-Beauger

  2. MAS laboratory, Ecole Centrale Paris, 92290, Chatenay-Malabry, France

    Nicolas Kuchmann-Beauger & Marie-Aude Aufaure

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  1. Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, P.O. box 260, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

  2. Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000, Ghent, Belgium

    Guy De Tré

  3. Computer Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University (METU), 06531, Ankara, Türkiye

    Adnan Yazici

  4. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Slawomir Zadrozny

  5. Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Building 42.1, P.O Box 260, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen

  6. Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Niels Bohrs Vey 8, H321, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

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Kuchmann-Beauger, N., Aufaure, MA. (2011). Structured Data-Based Q&A System Using Surface Patterns. In: Christiansen, H., De Tré, G., Yazici, A., Zadrozny, S., Andreasen, T., Larsen, H.L. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24764-4_4

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