Deepak Ravichandran

2 papers on this site · 2001–2002

current affiliationGoogle (United States), Mountain View, United States

Deepak Ravichandran has 2 papers on this site, in 2001–2002, most of them on Question answering; often with Eduard Hovy, Chin-Yew Lin, Ulf Hermjakob.

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Affiliations

Google (United States) · Mountain View, United States — current · 2008–2021 on 6 papers
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, United States — 2001–2006 on 10 papers

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Learning surface text patterns for a Question Answering System (2002 · 970 citations)
Open-domain QA systems usually depend on heavy external resources such as named entity taggers, WordNet, parsers and ontologies.
Toward Semantics-Based Answer Pinpointing (2001 · 263 citations)
The paper tackles a weakness in factoid question answering (QA). Most systems pick the answer by sliding a word-scoring window over retrieved text. That approach cannot mark exact answer boundaries, cannot recognize the semantic type of an answer such as a person or a place, and fails when answer pieces are spread…

2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them.

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Papers of our library cite their works 351 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); 15 citing papers with a page here →.