A Hybrid Approach to Natural Language Web Search

Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 180-187

  Chu Carroll, Jennifer ^a   Prager, John ^a   Ravin, Yael ^a   Cesar, Christian ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; WEBSITES;

FRONT END; HYBRID APPROACH; KEYWORD-BASED SEARCH ENGINES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NOUN PHRASE; QUERY FORMULATION; QUERY RETRIEVAL; SEARCH PERFORMANCE; TRANSFORMATION RULES; WEB SEARCHES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33745611537     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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