Task orientation in question answering

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 355-356

  Murdock, Vanessa ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Query classification; Task orientation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; SYNTACTICS;

DISAMBIGUATION TECHNIQUE; LANGUAGE MODEL; PARSERS; QUERY EXPANSION; QUESTION ANSWERING; TASK ORIENTATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0036989431     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/564376.564441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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