MANY OF THE MEASURES IN THE WORD-THE DESCRIBED PROCEDURE IS REPEATE...

1. Many of the measures in the Word-

The described procedure is repeated for all ques-

Net::Similarity package take only hyponym/

tion/answer sentence pairs in the training set and

hypernym relations into account. This makes

for each, one or more patterns are created.

aligning word of different parts of speech

It is worth to note that many TREC ques-

difficult or even impossible. However, such

tions are fairly short and grammatically sim-

alignments are important for our needs.

ple. In our training data we for exam-

ple find 102 questions matching the pattern