Implementing clarification dialogues in open domain question answering

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 343-361

  De Boni, Marco ^a   Manandhar, Suresh ^b  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FUNCTION EVALUATION; SEMANTICS;

CLARIFICATION DIALOGUES; OPEN DOMAIN QUESTION ANSWERING; SIGMOID FUNCTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 28344434942     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324905003682     Document Type: Article

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