A method for measuring sentence similarity and its application to conversational agents

Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2004

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 820-825

  Li, Yuhua ^a   Bandar, Zuhair ^a   McLean, David ^a   O'Shea, James ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS; TEXT PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; LEXICAL DATABASES; SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044237967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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