Web question answering: Is more always better?

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 291-298

  Dumais, Susan ^a   Banko, Michele ^a   Brill, Eric ^a   Lin, Jimmy ^a   Ng, Andrew ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA MINING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ANSWER MINING; LARGE CORPORA; N-GRAM EXTRACTION TECHNIQUE; QUESTION ANSWERING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0036989598     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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