Learning question classifiers: The role of semantic information

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 229-249

  Li, Xin ^a   Roth, Dan ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; TEXT DATA;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746393719     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324905003955     Document Type: Article

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