An Effective Engine for Answering Questions Based upon Chinese Semantic Extraction

International Journal of Information and Management Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 27-48

  Meng, I Heng ^a   Yang, Wei Pang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

FAQ Corpus; Ontology; Question Answering Engine; Text Mining

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS;

INTERROGATIVE TERMS; ONTOLOGY; TEXT MINING; WORDS SEGMENTS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0345015383     PISSN: 10171819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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