Experiments in passage selection and answer identification for question answering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4139 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 291-302

  Saggion, Horacio ^a   Gaizauskas, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS;

DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTIC-BASED FEATURES; QUESTION ANSWERING (QA);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749669284     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11816508_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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