2 COMPARISON WITH BASELINESWERS IN THE SUBSEQUENT ANSWER EXTRACTION...

7.2 Comparison with Baseline

swers in the subsequent answer extraction step if

the passages returned during passage retrieval do

As pointed out in Section 2 there is a strong tra-

not contain the answer in the first place. This also

dition of using dependency paths in QA. Many

holds true in our case: the patterns cannot be ex-

relevant papers describe algorithms that analyze

pected to identify a correct answer if none of the

a question’s grammatical structure and expect

sentences used as input contains the correct an-

to find a similar structure in valid answer sen-

swer. We therefore use two different evaluation

tences, e.g. (Attardi et al., 2001), (Cui et al., 2005)

sets to evaluate our algorithm:

or (Bouma et al., 2005) to name just a few. As

already pointed out, a major contribution of our