Probabilistic question answering on the Web

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 571-583

  Radev, Dragomir ^a   Fan, Weiguo ^b   Qi, Hong ^a   Wu, Harris ^a   Grewal, Amardeep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILISTIC PHRASE RERANKING (PPR); SEARCH ENGINES - ALLTHEWEB; SEARCH ENGINES - GOOGLE; SEARCH ENGINES - NORTHERNLIGHT;

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 17644401006     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20146     Document Type: Article

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