The effect of answer validation on the performance of Question-Answering systems
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Highlights：
• We describe a new approach for evaluating the contribution of Answer Validation.
• We use real systems in order to obtain better conclusions for future research.
• We show how Answer Validation modules improve Question Answering results.
• We interpret results in order to offer important lessons for future research.
摘要
•We describe a new approach for evaluating the contribution of Answer Validation.•We use real systems in order to obtain better conclusions for future research.•We show how Answer Validation modules improve Question Answering results.•We interpret results in order to offer important lessons for future research.
论文关键词：Question answering,Answer validation,Textual entailment recognition
论文评审过程：Received 3 October 2017, Revised 5 September 2018, Accepted 7 September 2018, Available online 7 September 2018, Version of Record 22 September 2018.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.09.014
