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Research Article
A linguistic analysis of question taxonomies
Article first published online: 16 MAR 2005
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20162
Copyright © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Issue
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Volume 56, Issue 7, pages 715–728, May 2005
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How to Cite
Pomerantz, J. (2005), A linguistic analysis of question taxonomies. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 56: 715–728. doi: 10.1002/asi.20162
Publication History
- Issue published online: 7 APR 2005
- Article first published online: 16 MAR 2005
- Manuscript Accepted: 17 MAY 2004
- Manuscript Revised: 22 MAR 2004
- Manuscript Received: 12 DEC 2003
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Abstract
Recent work in automatic question answering has called for question taxonomies as a critical component of the process of machine understanding of questions. There is a long tradition of classifying questions in library reference services, and digital reference services have a strong need for automation to support scalability. Digital reference and question answering systems have the potential to arrive at a highly fruitful symbiosis. To move towards this goal, an extensive review was conducted of bodies of literature from several fields that deal with questions, to identify question taxonomies that exist in these bodies of literature. In the course of this review, five question taxonomies were identified, at four levels of linguistic analysis.