Improving Question Answering using Named Entity Recognition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3513, Issue , 2005, Pages 181-191

  Toral, Antonio ^a   Noguera, Elisa ^a   Llopis, Fernando ^a   Muñoz, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; TEXT PROCESSING;

NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION (NER); NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 25144456934     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11428817_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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