| Publication Type |
Journal Article |
| School or College |
College of Engineering |
| Department |
Computing, School of |
| Creator |
Riloff, Ellen M. |
| Other Author |
Thelen, Michael |
| Title |
Rule-based question answering system for reading comprehension tests |
| Date |
2000 |
| Description |
We have developed a rule-based system, Quarc, that can read a short story and find the sentence in the story that best answers a given question. Quarc uses heuristic rules that look for lexical and semantic clues in the question and the story. We have tested Quarc on reading comprehension tests typically given to children in grades 3-6. Overall, Quarc found the correct sentence 40% of the time, which is encouraging given the simplicity of its rules. |
| Type |
Text |
| Publisher |
Association for Computational Linguistics |
| First Page |
1 |
| Last Page |
7 |
| Subject |
Quarc; Reading comprehension |
| Subject LCSH |
Information retrieval; Question-answering systems; Rule-based programming; Natural language processing (Computer science) |
| Language |
eng |
| Bibliographic Citation |
Riloff, E. M., & Thelen, M. (2000). Rule-based question answering system for reading comprehension tests. ANLP/NAACL-2000 Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems, 1-7. |
| Rights Management |
(c)Riloff, E. M., & Thelen, M. |
| Format Medium |
application/pdf |
| Format Extent |
900,114 bytes |
| Identifier |
ir-main,12461 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s61g14pn |
| Setname |
ir_uspace |
| ID |
705592 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61g14pn |
