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| Title | Investigating the Structure of Procedural Texts for Answering How-to Questions |
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| Authors | Estelle Delpech and Patrick Saint-Dizier |
| Abstract | This paper presents ongoing work dedicated to parsing the textual structure of procedural texts. We propose here a model for the intructional structure and criteria to identify its main components: titles, instructions, warnings and prerequisites. The main aim of this project, besides a contribution to text processing, is to be able to answer procedural questions (How-to? questions), where the answer is a well-formed portion of a text, not a small set of words as for factoid questions. |
| Language | Language-independent |
| Topics | Discourse, Semantics, Question Answering |
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| Bibtex | @InProceedings{DELPECH08.20, author = {Estelle Delpech and Patrick Saint-Dizier}, title = {Investigating the Structure of Procedural Texts for Answering How-to Questions}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)}, year = {2008}, month = {may}, date = {28-30}, address = {Marrakech, Morocco}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-4-0}, note = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/}, language = {english} } |