The search for answers: Present state and future prospects;La Búsqueda de Respuestas: Estado Actual y Perspectivas de Futuro

Inteligencia Artificial

Volumn 8, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 37-56

  Vicedo, José Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 2942703993     PISSN: 11373601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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