August 17, 2005
Generic Soft Pattern Models for
Definitional QA
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(1) … that Wicca _ whose practitioners call themselves witches and
believe in the dual deity of god and goddess _ is not a religion and should not be practiced on military
bases.
(2) …
, Wicca, as contemporary witchcraft is often called, has been growing in the United States and abroad.
(3) The Wiccans, whose religion is a reconstruction of nature worship from tribal Europe and other parts
of the world, had to meet the same criteria as other religions to conduct services on the base,
including sponsorship by a legally incorporated church, in this case one in San Antonio.
(4) Wicca adherents celebrate eight major sabbats, festivals that
mark the change of seasons and agricultural cycles, and believe in both god and goddess.
Definitional QA
•To answer questions like “Who is Gunter Blobel” or “What is Wicca”.
•Why evaluating on definition sentence retrieval?
–Diverse patterns
–Definitional QA is one
of the
least explored areas in
QA