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OpenEphyra is an open-source framework for building question answering (QA) systems. It is designed to be modular, scalable, and flexible, allowing developers to easily create, extend, and customize QA systems for a wide range of applications.
OpenEphyra provides a number of core components that are common to many QA systems, such as:
- A question classifier: This component identifies the type of question that has been asked (e.g. factoid, definition, or list), which helps to determine the appropriate strategy for answering the question.
- A query generator: This component creates a query based on the question that has been asked, which can be used to search for relevant information in a knowledge base or other source of information.
- A passage retriever: This component retrieves a set of passages that are relevant to the question that has been asked, based on the query generated by the query generator.
- A passage ranker: This component ranks the retrieved passages according to their relevance to the question, which helps to identify the most useful passages for answering the question.
- An answer extractor: This component extracts the answer to the question from the ranked passages, using a variety of techniques, such as named entity recognition, coreference resolution, and sentence fusion.
OpenEphyra also provides a number of additional components that can be used to extend and customize QA systems, such as:
- A passage filter: This component filters out irrelevant or low-quality passages from the retrieved set, using a variety of techniques, such as keyword filtering and passage quality estimation.
- A passage augmenter: This component adds additional information to the retrieved passages, such as context or background knowledge, which can help to improve the accuracy and completeness of the answer.
- A feedback component: This component allows users to provide feedback on the quality of the answer, which can be used to improve the performance of the QA system over time.
In summary, OpenEphyra is an open-source framework for building question answering systems. It provides a set of core components that are common to many QA systems, as well as a number of additional components that can be used to extend and customize QA systems for specific applications. OpenEphyra is designed to be modular, scalable, and flexible, allowing developers to easily create, extend, and customize QA systems to meet their specific needs.
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AskMSR | Interactive Question Answering | Question Generation | Question Generators | Question Semantic Representation (QSR) | SPARQL & Natural Language Question Answering (2011) | YourQA (York Question Answering System)
Multi-lingual question answering using OpenEphyra M van Zaanen – Working Notes for the Cross Language …, 2008 – ims-sites.dei.unipd.it Abstract In this article we describe our submission to the Dutch-English QA@ CLEF task. We took the publicly available OpenEphyra question answering system, which is an opensource English question answering system. This was turned into a multi-lingual variant by … Cited by 3 Related articles All 4 versions
Answer credibility: a language modeling approach to answer validation P Banerjee, H Han – … of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 …, 2009 – dl.acm.org … The OpenEphyra Question Answering testbed (Schlaefer, 2006) was then used as the framework for our Answer Credibility implementation. OpenEphyra uses a baseline Answer Validation mechanism which uses documents retrieved using Yahoo! … OpenEphyra QA TestBed … Cited by 5 Related articles All 6 versions
Experiments on related entity finding track at TREC 2009 Q Yang, P Jiang, C Zhang, Z Niu – 2009 – DTIC Document … 2.1. System Overview We complete our experimental system architecture as pipeline architecture by devising from OpenEphyra’s framework. Page 2. … Also, OpenEphyra employs wordnet to expand query terms. From the expanded query string, it generates some irrelevant terms. … Cited by 9 Related articles All 4 versions
Improving text retrieval precision and answer accuracy in question answering systems MW Bilotti, E Nyberg – Coling 2008: Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on …, 2008 – dl.acm.org … 1See: http://www.ephyra.info The common representation in OpenEphyra is a verb predicate-argument structure, augmented with named entity types, in which verb arguments are labeled with semantic roles in the style of Prop- Bank (Kingsbury et al., 2002). … Cited by 8 Related articles All 9 versions
The UC3M team at the Knowledge Base Population task C de Pablo-Sanchez, J Perea, I Segura-Bedmar… – Second Text Analysis …, 2009 – nist.gov … The second option, using the QA as a glass box reuses the internal 3http://www.ephyra.info 4http://lemurproject.org/indri Page 6. … Even in a modular system like OpenEphyra the main disadvantage is that it requires detailed knowledge of the components. … Cited by 4 Related articles All 2 versions
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Data extraction from the web using wild card queries D Rafiei, H Li – Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on …, 2009 – dl.acm.org … DeWild achieves a much better precision, with a good annotator agreement (kappa) of 0.66, for both short and a bit longer questions, retrieving a correct answer for twice as many queries as OpenEphyra. … 4http://www.ephyra.info 1941 Page 4. … Cited by 3 Related articles All 6 versions
Passage reranking for question answering using syntactic structures and answer types E Aktolga, J Allan, DA Smith – Advances in Information Retrieval, 2011 – Springer … We use the open domain question answering system OpenEphyra 0.1.1 as our system [5], [6], [7], which is a full implementation of a pipelined question answer- ing system. … (3) Candidate answer type detection with OpenEphyra must be successful. … Cited by 18 Related articles All 8 versions
Question Answering and Affective Language Processing in the PRAIA project F Pimenta, RS Wilkens, A Villavicencio – gia.inf.ufrgs.br … information retrieval • But allow more flexible interaction Value for money? Examples of QA • AnswerBus (http://www.answerbus.com) • Ephyra (http://www.ephyra.info) • TrueKnowledge (http://www.trueknowledge.com) Page 6. • To classify texts according to semantic orientation … Related articles
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Reconstruct logical hierarchical sitemap for related entity finding Q Yang, P Jiang, C Zhang, Z Niu – 2010 – DTIC Document … 5.4 Related Entity Candidates Ranking It is well known that the search results ranking is not necessary responding to those extracted entities ranking. We apply the following formula to rank related entity candidates. 6 http://www.ephyra.info/ Page 7. ))( ( ? … Cited by 8 Related articles All 4 versions
Graduated locality-aware scheduling for search engines J Kelley, C Stewart – Proceedings of the Posters and Demo Track, 2012 – dl.acm.org … Figure 4: Chart includes data from a test set of eight questions, run over the OpenEphyra application requesting keys from Zo- olander using different ordering algorithms. … OpenEphyra was modified slightly to allow it to use data from a key-value storage system, Zoolander. … Related articles All 3 versions
IceQA: Developing a question answering system for Icelandic ÓP Geirsson – kennarar.ru.is … Some open source QA framworks exists, we had two particular sys- tems in mind. Firstly, OpenEphyra [11] developed at Carnegie Mellon and secondly QANUS [9] developed at the National University of Singapore. We researched both systems, beginning with OpenEphyra. … Related articles All 4 versions
Automatic set expansion for list question answering RC Wang, N Schlaefer, WW Cohen… – Proceedings of the …, 2008 – dl.acm.org … The source code of the answer extractors is in- cluded in OpenEphyra, an open source release of the system.2 The answer candidates from these extractors are combined and ranked by a statistical answer selec- tion framework … 2http://www.ephyra.info/ 3http://rcwang.com/seal … Cited by 24 Related articles All 12 versions
Cache provisioning for interactive nlp services J Kelley, C Stewart, S Elnikety… – Workshop on Large- …, 2013 – 2013.ladisworkshop.org … We set up two systems: Apache Lucene [1], an open source search engine, and OpenEphyra, an open source question answering system like IBM’s Page 2. Watson [8] that uses unstructured data. … OpenEphyra uses the NYT workload. … Cited by 2 Related articles All 3 versions
Pattern Based Indonesian Question Answering System H Toba, M Adriani – … of the International Conference on Advanced …, 2009 – researchgate.net … The question templates need to be manually developed according to various interrogative sentences that are independent for each natural language. 1 http://www.ephyra.info Fig. 1. Open Ephyra Framework (Schlaefer et.al., 2006) … Cited by 1 Related articles All 6 versions
Instructor-aided asynchronous question answering system for online education and distance learning D Wen, J Cuzzola, L Brown – The International Review of Research in …, 2012 – irrodl.org … We utilized the open source framework OpenEphyra which provides the four stage pipeline in a modular and extensible implementation (Schlaefer, Gieselmann, & Sautter, 2006). … Unfortunately, OpenEphyra out-of-the-box is geared toward factoid answers only. … Cited by 1 Related articles All 5 versions
Text based dialog system N Naushin, ZMA Kareem, R Chowdhury – 2009 – dspace.bracu.ac.bd … The intention of this document is to introduce the designers and researchers new to this field to tools and design techniques which may be used to develop dialog systems. We looked into systems such as OpenEphyra, Trindikit and Ariadne. … All 3 versions
Contextual Approach for Paragraph Selection in Question Answering Task. H Toba, S Sari, M Adriani… – … Notebook Papers/LABs/ …, 2010 – clef2010.clef-initiative.eu … each question type. The aim of this step is to interpret the questions and 2 http://www.ephyra.info 3 http://sourceforge.net/projects/jirs/ 4 http://semanticvectors. googlecode.com/ Page 3. transform them into queries. The question … Cited by 4 Related articles All 4 versions
TPE Based Tuple Extraction Method for Question and Answering System J Kim, K Kim – Information Science and Applications (ICISA), …, 2014 – ieeexplore.ieee.org … [12] Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER). Available : http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/ CRF-NER.shtml [13] OpenEphyra(Ephyra Question Answering System). Available : http://www.ephyra.info/ [14] MIT Java WordNet Interface(JWI). Available : …
Effective and efficient structured retrieval L Zhao, J Callan – Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on …, 2009 – dl.acm.org … We include this set despite characteristic differences. Questions were first transformed using simple syntactic rules into statements using the OpenEphyra system version 0.1.1 [10], and then parsed by ASSERT version 0.14b. Answer types were also predicted by OpenEphyra. … Cited by 7 Related articles
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Lads: Rapid development of a learning-to-rank based related entity finding system using open advancement B Lin, KD Rosa, R Shah… – Proceedings of the …, 2011 – research.microsoft.com … [Online]. Available: http://jsoup.org [4] Microsoft Bing API. [Online]. Available: http://www.bing.com/developers/ [5] OpenEphyra Question Answering System. [Online]. Available: http://www.ephyra.info/ [6] The Lemur Project. [Online]. … Cited by 3 Related articles All 7 versions
Indexing on semantic roles for question answering LA Pizzato, D Mollá – Coling 2008: Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on …, 2008 – dl.acm.org … some special cases. • OpenEphyra: Developed by Schlaefer et al. (2007), the OpenEphyra framework attempts to be a test bench for question answering tech- niques. The system approaches QA in a fairly standard way. Using a … Cited by 9 Related articles All 8 versions
Top-down and bottom-up: A combined approach to slot filling Z Chen, S Tamang, A Lee, X Li, M Passantino… – Information Retrieval …, 2010 – Springer … 3.3 Question Answering We also apply the web module of an open domain QA system, OpenEphyra (Schlae- fer et al., 2007) to retrieve candidate answers for the KBP slot filling task. … We use the answer confidence assigned by the OpenEphyra system as a re-ranking feature. … Cited by 10 Related articles All 10 versions
An Open Source Question Answering System Trained on Wikipedia Dumps Adapted to a Spoken Dialogue System Y Heikal – it-tjr7.dhbw-stuttgart.de … 2.1 Open Ephyra Open Ephyra can be downloaded from the following link: http://sourceforge. net/projects/openephyra/ … Go to scripts/ in the Open Ephyra folder and run one of the following: 1. OpenEphyra.sh: to run Open Ephyra using the web as a knowledge source. … Related articles
Wild Card Queries for Searching Resources on the Web D Rafiei, H Li – arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.2588, 2009 – arxiv.org … good annotator agreement (kappa) of 0.66, for both short and a bit longer questions, retrieving a correct answer for twice as many queries as OpenEphyra. … Clearly, any of the patterns in the ta- ble could have been used as a query and the result returned 7http://www.ephyra.info … Cited by 1 Related articles All 6 versions
Answer Extraction by Recursive Parse Tree Descent C Malon, B Bai – ACL 2013, 2013 – aclweb.org … 236 65.5% 20.4%. 311 (1333 questions) OpenEphyra 52.2% 13.1%. … In con- trast to our system, OpenEphyra’s question analy- sis module is trained to map questions to one of a fixed number of answer types, such as PERCENTAGE, or PROPER_NAME. PERSON. … Related articles All 5 versions
Intelligent Question–Answering Systems: Review of research R Matej?i?, C Rijeka – docs.mipro-proceedings.com … using local resources. A similar baseline experiment was performed in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) using OpenEphyra, an open-source QA framework developed primarily at CMU. The framework is …
Intelligent question—Answering systems: Review of research J Tomljanovic, M Pavlic, MA Katic – … Technology, Electronics and …, 2014 – ieeexplore.ieee.org … using local resources. A similar baseline experiment was performed in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) using OpenEphyra, an open-source QA framework developed primarily at CMU. The framework is …
A phased ranking model for question answering R Liu, E Nyberg – Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference …, 2013 – dl.acm.org … 5. QUESTION ANSWERING To compare the performance of our model with previous work on answer ranking, we built a baseline QA system using existing software (OpenEphyra 2 and some other available resources). … 2OpenEphyra, http://www.ephyra.info/ 82 Page 5. … Related articles
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Multi-lingual Question Answering HL Li – ilk.uvt.nl … 25 – 3.3 Multi-lingual question answering – OpenEphyra ….. 28 – … One of the QA systems that participated in both competitions is OpenEphyra, an open-source question answering system (Schlaefer et al., 2006, 2007, van Zaanen, 2008). … Related articles
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Language-Independent Class Instance Extraction Using the Web RC Wang – 2009 – lti.cs.cmu.edu Page 1. Language-Independent Class Instance Extraction Using the Web Richard C. Wang gw Ev sEHWEHPH Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Thesis Committee … Cited by 3 Related articles All 9 versions
Towards a thematic role based target identification model for question answering R Perera, U Perera – International Journal of Advancements in Technology, 2012 – ijict.org … for the given query. However, in their research which warps around the OpenEphyra question answering system, shows that passage ranking is not the most important task in question answering. Ganesh et al. [5] also support … Related articles All 8 versions
Syntactic and semantic models and algorithms in Question Answering A Solovyev – rcdl2011.vsu.ru … SRL gives two-level hierarchy: predicates and arguments. Dependencies between arguments are not considered – they all depends on predicate. OpenEphyra: [Schlaefer. A Semantic Approach to Question Answering. 2007] <ARGM_TMP>In what year was … Related articles
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Open-Domain multi-document summarization via information extraction: Challenges and prospects H Ji, B Favre, WP Lin, D Gillick, D Hakkani-Tur… – Multi-source, …, 2013 – Springer … The filtering steps include removing answers which have inappropriate entity types or involve inappropriate dependency paths to the entities. We also apply an open domain QA system, OpenEphyra [ 32 ] to retrieve more candidate answers. … Cited by 5 Related articles All 7 versions
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A Survey on Question Answering System BC Das – cfilt.iitb.ac.in … challenged to compete with the champions at Jeopardy game show. The project started in 2007 and was finished in 2011, where it made its public appearance. It was 2 http://sourceforge.net/ projects/openephyra/ Page 12. PAGE 11 able to beat two Jeopardy Champions. …
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Index structures for efficiently searching natural language text P Chubak, D Rafiei – Proceedings of the 19th ACM international …, 2010 – dl.acm.org … Finally, question answering systems often rely on NLP components that may directly or indirectly use wild card queries. Examples are taxonomy construction, fact extraction, named entity recog- 1See OpenEphyra [7] for an example 689 Page 2. … Cited by 2 Related articles All 5 versions
Creating conversational characters using question generation tools X Yao, E Tosch, G Chen, E Nouri, R Artstein… – Dialogue & …, 2012 – elanguage.net … Eisner (2006). 2.3 OpenAryhpe In addition to using the Question Transducer tool, we also developed a partial reimplementation in the framework of OpenEphyra (Schlaefer et al., 2006) which we call OpenAryhpe. The difference … Cited by 4 Related articles All 9 versions
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