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Q

qc - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionAnalysis

Question Classifier for determining the answer type.

qContents - Variable in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.KnowledgeAnnotator

Strings identifying the relevant content of a question by referring to the groups in the corresponding question patterns.

qi - Variable in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.Query

The interpretation of the question used to generate this query (optional).

qis - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

Interpretations of the question.

qn - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

Normalized question string.

qPatterns - Variable in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.KnowledgeAnnotator

A question that matches at least one of these patterns can be handled by the KnowledgeAnnotator.

qss - Static variable in class info.ephyra.patternlearning.PatternLearner

Question strings.

qss - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.EphyraTREC8To11

Question strings.

QTYPE - Static variable in class info.ephyra.trec.TREC8To12Parser

Type of the TREC 8 to 11 questions.

QUANTIFICATION_R - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.PredicateExtractor

Replacement if question is seeking a quantification.

quantityPatternNames - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.NETagger

NE types that are matched by the regular expressions.

quantityPatterns - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.NETagger

Regular expression patterns that match different types of quantity NEs (number + unit).

quantityUnitPatternMaxTokens - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.NETagger

Maximum number of tokens per instance for the different types of quantity units.

quantityUnitPatterns - Static variable in class info.ephyra.nlp.NETagger

Regular expression patterns that match different measurement units.

Query - Class in info.ephyra.querygeneration

A Query is a data structure representing a search engine query.

Query(String) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.querygeneration.Query

Creates a new Query object and sets the query string.

Query(String, AnalyzedQuestion, float) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.querygeneration.Query

Creates a new Query object and sets the query string, the analyzed question and the score of the query.

query - Variable in class info.ephyra.search.Result

The Query that was used to obtain the answer (optional).

query - Variable in class info.ephyra.search.searchers.Searcher

Query that is performed.

QueryGeneration - Class in info.ephyra.querygeneration

Generates one or more Queries from a previously analyzed question by applying a set of QueryGenerators.

QueryGeneration() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.querygeneration.QueryGeneration

QueryGenerator - Class in info.ephyra.querygeneration.generators

A QueryGenerator creates one or more Query objects from an analyzed question.

QueryGenerator() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.querygeneration.generators.QueryGenerator

queryGenerators - Static variable in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.QueryGeneration

QueryGenerator objects used to generate the queries.

queryKAs(Query) - Static method in class info.ephyra.search.Search

Searches the (semi)structured knowledge sources.

queryKMs(Query) - Static method in class info.ephyra.search.Search

Searches the unstructured knowledge sources.

QueryScoreFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

This filter simply increments the score of each result by the score of the query that was used to obtain the result.

QueryScoreFilter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.QueryScoreFilter

queryString(String, String[], String[]) - Method in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.generators.QuestionInterpretationG

Creates a query string from the interpretation of a question and the keywords in the question (for question answering only) or an answer string (for pattern learning only).

queryString - Variable in class info.ephyra.querygeneration.Query

The query string.

question - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.AnalyzedQuestion

Question string.

QuestionAnalysis - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis

Analyzes a question string: normalizes the question stems verbs and nouns resolves verb constructions with auxiliaries extracts keywords extracts named entities extracts and expands terms determines focus word and expected answer types interprets the question using question patterns extracts predicate-argument structures

QuestionAnalysis() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionAnalysis

QuestionClassifier - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype

A class for classifying questions in terms of their expected answer type.

QuestionClassifier() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.QuestionClassifier

QuestionClassifierFactory - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype

Factory class for generating a question classifier.

QuestionClassifierFactory() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.QuestionClassifierFactory

questionID - Variable in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECNugget

QuestionInterpretation - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis

A QuestionInterpretation is a data structure comprising the TARGET of a question, the CONTEXT and the PROPERTY the question asks for.

QuestionInterpretation(String, String[], String) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionInterpretation

Creates a new QuestionInterpretation object and sets the TARGET, CONTEXT, PROPERTY and LENGTH fields.

QuestionInterpretationG - Class in info.ephyra.querygeneration.generators

The QuestionInterpretationG generates queries from question interpretations.

QuestionInterpretationG() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.querygeneration.generators.QuestionInterpretationG

QuestionInterpreter - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis

The QuestionInterpreter parses a question and determines the TARGET, the CONTEXT and the PROPERTY it asks for.

QuestionInterpreter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionInterpreter

QuestionKeywordsFilter - Class in info.ephyra.answerselection.filters

A filter that drops a result if the answer string contains a keyword from the question.

QuestionKeywordsFilter() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.answerselection.filters.QuestionKeywordsFilter

QuestionNormalizer - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis

This class provides methods that modify a question to facilitate pattern matching and to anticipate the format of text passages that answer the question.

QuestionNormalizer() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionNormalizer

QuestionPattern - Class in info.ephyra.questionanalysis

A QuestionPattern is applied to a question to determine the TARGET of the question, CONTEXT information and the PROPERTY the question asks for.

QuestionPattern(String, String) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionPattern

Creates a QuestionPattern from a descriptor that is a regular expression but additionally contains the following tags: <TO> - exactly one TARGET tag <CO> - an arbitrary number of CONTEXT tags

questionPatterns - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionInterpreter

The patterns that are applied to a question.

questionPosition - Variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.atype.extractor.FeatureExtractor

The captured group index of the question in the dataset line Pattern.

QuestionReformulation - Class in info.ephyra.querygeneration

A data structure consisting of an expression describing a query reformulation and a score that is used by the answer selection module to rank results that follow from that reformulation.

QuestionReformulation(String, float) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.querygeneration.QuestionReformulation

Creates a QuestionReformulation object and sets the expression and the score.

QuestionReformulationG - Class in info.ephyra.querygeneration.generators

The QuestionReformulationG can be applied to a question to obtain alternative queries that are more specific than a "bag of words" and therefore are more likely to return good results.

QuestionReformulationG() - Constructor for class info.ephyra.querygeneration.generators.QuestionReformulationG

QuestionReformulator - Class in info.ephyra.querygeneration

A QuestionReformulator can be applied to a question to obtain reformulations of the question that are likely to occur in text passages that answer the question.

QuestionReformulator(String) - Constructor for class info.ephyra.querygeneration.QuestionReformulator

Creates a new QuestionReformulator from a file.

questions - Variable in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECTarget

The questions on the target.

questionString - Variable in class info.ephyra.trec.TRECQuestion

The question string.

questionTemplates - Static variable in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.QuestionInterpreter

For each PROPERTY a template for a question asking for it.

questionToStatement(String, String, String[]) - Static method in class info.ephyra.questionanalysis.PredicateExtractor

Transforms a question into a statement by replacing phrases with interrogatives.