August 17, 2005
Generic Soft Pattern Models for
Definitional QA
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Pattern Matching for Definitional QA
• Manually constructed
patterns
•Appositive
e.g. Gunter Blobel , a cellular and molecular biologist,…
•Copulas
e.g. Battery is a kind of electronic device …
•Predicates (relations)
e.g. TB is usually caused by …