The impact of corpus size on question answering performance

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 369-370

  Clarke, C L A ^a   Cormack, G V ^a   Laszlo, M ^a   Lynam, T R ^a   Terra, E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Question answering

Indexed keywords

HTML; ONLINE SEARCHING; QUERY LANGUAGES; TEXT PROCESSING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM; UNIFIED RESOURCE LANGUAGE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036995537     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/564437.564448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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