A statistical classification approach to question answering using web data

Proceedings - 2005 International Conference on Cyberworlds, CW 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 421-428

  Whittaker, Edward ^a   Furui, Sadaoki ^a   Klakow, Dietrich ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ANSWER CLASSIFICATION; QUESTION ANSWERING; STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION; WEB DATA;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 33745117926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CW.2005.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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