Analysis of statistical question classification for fact-based questions

Information Retrieval

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 481-504

  Metzler, Donald ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Question answering; Question classification; Semantic features; Support Vector Machines; Syntactic features; WordNet

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444401767     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-005-6995-3     Document Type: Article

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