A linguistic analysis of question taxonomies Export

@article{citeulike:2618382, abstract = {Recent work in automatic question answering has called for question taxonomies as a critical component of the process of machine understanding of questions. There is a long tradition of classifying questions in library reference services, and digital reference services have a strong need for automation to support scalability. Digital reference and question answering systems have the potential to arrive at a highly fruitful symbiosis. To move towards this goal, an extensive review was conducted of bodies of literature from several fields that deal with questions, to identify question taxonomies that exist in these bodies of literature. In the course of this review, five question taxonomies were identified, at four levels of linguistic analysis.}, address = {School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Manning Hall, CB \#3360, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360}, author = {Pomerantz, Jeffrey}, citeulike-article-id = {2618382}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20162}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/110430937/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1002/asi.20162}, issn = {1532-2890}, journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology}, keywords = {qna, qna2010, taxonomy}, number = {7}, pages = {715--728}, posted-at = {2009-09-11 01:13:27}, priority = {2}, title = {A linguistic analysis of question taxonomies}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20162}, volume = {56}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2618382 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2618382 N2 - Recent work in automatic question answering has called for question taxonomies as a critical component of the process of machine understanding of questions. There is a long tradition of classifying questions in library reference services, and digital reference services have a strong need for automation to support scalability. Digital reference and question answering systems have the potential to arrive at a highly fruitful symbiosis. To move towards this goal, an extensive review was conducted of bodies of literature from several fields that deal with questions, to identify question taxonomies that exist in these bodies of literature. In the course of this review, five question taxonomies were identified, at four levels of linguistic analysis. IS - 7 JF - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology SN - 1532-2890 AD - School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Manning Hall, CB #3360, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 EP - 728 TI - A linguistic analysis of question taxonomies VL - 56 SP - 715 KW - qna KW - qna2010 KW - taxonomy AU - Pomerantz, Jeffrey PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20162 ER -