Automated question answering: Review of the main approaches

Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2005

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages 514-519

  Andrenucci, Andrea ^a   Sneiders, Eriks ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

AUTOMATED QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION TEMPLATES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646759562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICITA.2005.78     Document Type: Conference Paper

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