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Chapter 5Extraction of ProceduralExpressions5.1 IntroductionIn Chapter 4, I discussed text categorization based on description types andshowed some accurately categorized description types such as definition, order oftime, and process. In this chapter, I focus on questions requiring a procedure andintend to study the features necessary for its extraction of the answer. In opendomainquestion answering, especially in user navigation on the Web, very fewstudies have aimed at answering questions by extracting procedural expressionsfrom web pages. Accordingly, a) representations in a web text to indicate aprocedure, b) the method of extracting those representations, and c) the wayto combine related texts as an answer, are issues that have not been sufficientlyclarified. Consequently, past studies do not provide a general approach for solvingthese tasks.In contrast, it has been reported that the texts related to question-answeringin web pages contain many lists in the descriptions. I decided to focus on listsincluding procedural expressions and employed an approach of extracting listsfrom web pages as answers. This results in difficulty in extracting the answerswritten in a different style. However, compared to seeking answer candidatesfrom a document set including various web pages, it is expected that they will befound relatively more often from the gathered lists. In this chapter, my goal is to65