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Table 3 Examples of translation probability

From: Question answering system using Q & A site corpus Query expansion and answer candidate evaluation

Index

Given word

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

(1)

(.064)

(.057)

(.037)

(.026)

(.024)

 

Medical care

Medical care

Hospital

Fare

Admission

Operation

(2)

(.097)

(.032)

(.021)

(.016)

(.016)

 

Lawsuit

Lawsuit

Judgment

Sue over

Advocate

Right

(3)

(.081)

(.034)

(.025)

(.023)

(.022)

 

Salt water

Salt water

Water

Tastes salty

Method

Shell

(4)

(.033)

(.020)

(.019)

(.015)

(.015)

 

Landform

Landform

Yokohama

Times

Typhoon

Geography

(5)

(.115)

(.0373)

(.024)

(.024)

(.021)

 

Channel

Channel

Island

World

Takeshima

Tohoku

(6)

(.249)

(.060)

(.031)

(.028)

(.023)

 

Arrestment

Arrestment

PASSIVE

Get caught

Do

PAST

(7)

(.132)

? (.031)

(.030)

(.029)

(.026)

 

Cell

Cell

?

PREDICATION

Why

Human

(8)

(.146)

(.060)

(.031)

(.031)

(.030)

 

Information

Information

Of

PREDICATION

Do

AGENT

(9)

(.134)

(.065)

(.040)

(.039)

?(.038)

 

Technology

Technology

Of

TOPIC MARKER

PREDICATION

?

(10)

(.298)

(.098)

(.039)

(.025)

?(.021)

 

President

President

America

Bush

Of

?

(11)

(.222)

(.138)

(.047)

(.040)

(.030)

 

Prime minister

Prime minister

Koizumi

Minister

Mr.

Prime minister

(12)

(.191)

?(.170)

(.143)

(.079)

(.045)

 

Shepherd’s-purse

Seven herbs

?

As for

Of

QUESTION

(13)

?(.064)

(.063)

(.052)

(.049)

(.046)

 

Because

?

Of

PREDICATION

TOPIC MARKER

QUESTION

(14)

(.073)

(.058)

? (.056)

(.050)

(.046)

 

Because

Of

PREDICATION

?

QUESTION

AGENT

(15)

(.088)

(.061)

? (.055)

(.052)

(.048)

 

For

Of

PREDICATION

?

QUESTION

For

(16)

(0.17)

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.03)

 

Reason

Reason

Why

AGENT

Of

QUESTION

  1. This table has examples of the top-5 words that maximize P(q|a), which is the translation probability from a word a in an answer to a word q in a question when a is given. The English words and the numbers in brackets are the English translations and the translation probabilities, respectively. The functions of Japanese words are shown when the English words are written in upper case.