Is question answering an acquired skill?

Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings, WWW2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 111-120

  Ramakrishnan, Ganesh ^a   Paranjpe, Deepa ^a   Chakrabarti, Soumen ^a   Bhattacharyya, Pushpak ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Question answering

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; MEAN RECIPROCAL RANK (MRR); QUERY FORMULATION; QUESTION ANSWERING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 19944379500     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/988672.988688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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