Unsupervised learning of soft patterns for generating definitions from online news

Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings, WWW2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 90-98

  Cui, Hang ^a   Kan, Min Yen ^a   Chua, Tat Seng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Definition generation; Definitional question answering; Pseudo relevance feedback; Soft patterns; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DEFINITION GENERATION; DEFINITIONAL QUESTION ANSWERING; PSEUDO-RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; SOFT PATTERNS; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 18744401197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/988672.988686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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