Building Effective Question Answering Characters

SIGDIAL 2006 - 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 18-27

  Leuski, Anton ^a   Patel, Ronakkumar ^a   Traum, David ^a   Kennedy, Brandon ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b NONE

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE MODEL; LIMITED DOMAINS; MACHINE LANGUAGES; MODEL-BASED OPC; QUESTION ANSWERING; RETRIEVAL LANGUAGES; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 33749570645     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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