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Entities with quantities: Extraction, search and ranking
Vinh Ho Thinh, , Niko Kleer, Klaus Berberich, Gerhard Weikum
Published in Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
2020
Pages: 833 - 836
Abstract
Quantities are more than numeric values. They represent measures for entities, expressed in numbers with associated units. Search queries often include quantities, such as athletes who ran 200m under 20 seconds or companies with quarterly revenue above $2 Billion. Processing such queries requires understanding the quantities, where capturing the surrounding context is an essential part of it. Although modern search engines or QA systems handle entity-centric queries well, they consider numbers and units as simple keywords and therefore fail to understand the condition (less than, above, etc.), the unit of interest (seconds, dollar, etc.) and the context of the quantity (200m race, quarterly revenue, etc.) As a result, they cannot generate the correct candidate answers. In this work, we demonstrate a prototype QA system, called Qsearch, that can handle advanced queries with quantity constraints using the common cues present in both query and the text sources.
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JournalData powered by TypesetWSDM 2020 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
PublisherData powered by TypesetAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Open AccessNo