Syntactic and semantic decomposition strategies for question answering from multiple resources

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-05-05, Issue , 2005, Pages 35-41

  Kate, Boris ^a   Borchardt, Gary ^a   Felshin, Sue ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION STRATEGIES; INFORMATION ACCESS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MULTIPLE RESOURCES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 33646063770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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