Question answering from the Web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 116-123

  Lin, Jimmy ^a   Katz, Boris ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data redundancy; Semistructured data

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REDUNDANCY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA-REDUNDANCY; KNOWLEDGE ANNOTATION; KNOWLEDGE MINING; SEMISTRUCTURED DATA;

DATA MINING;

EID: 18744389774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/956863.956886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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