Mining the web for answers to natural language questions

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 143-150

  Radev, Dragomir R ^a   Qi, Hong ^a   Zheng, Zhiping ^a   Blair Goldensohn, Sasha ^a   Zhang, Zhu ^a   Fan, Weiguo ^a   Prager, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS; QUESTION ANSWERING USING STATISTICAL MODELS (QASM);

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 0035755013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/502606.502610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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