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  <Title>Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP), pages 931-938, Vancouver, October 2005. c(c)2005 Association for Computational Linguistics Automatically Evaluating Answers to Definition Questions</Title>
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8 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We hope that POURPRE can accomplish for definition question answering what BLEU has done for machine translation, and ROUGE for document summarization: allow laboratory experiments to be conducted with rapid turnaround. A much shorter experimental cycle will allow researchers to explore differenttechniquesandreceiveimmediatefeedback on their effectiveness. Hopefully, this will translate into rapid progress in the state of the art.4</Paragraph>
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