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Using Knowledge Bases For Question Answering, Yunshi Lan
Using Knowledge Bases For Question Answering, Yunshi Lan
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A knowledge base (KB) is a well-structured database, which contains many of entities and their relations. With the fast development of large-scale knowledge bases such as Freebase, DBpedia and YAGO, knowledge bases have become an important resource, which can serve many applications, such as dialogue system, textual entailment, question answering and so on. These applications play significant roles in real-world industry.
In this dissertation, we try to explore the entailment information and more general entity-relation information from the KBs. Recognizing textual entailment (RTE) is a task to infer the entailment relations between sentences. We need to decide whether a hypothesis …