Answering complex questions with random walk models

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 220-227

  Harabagiu, Sanda ^a   Lacatusu, Finley ^a   Hickl, Andrew ^a  

^a Language Computer Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Question answering; Summarization

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER SETS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; GRAPH THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; ACCESS CONTROL; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MESSAGE PASSING;

QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING (Q/A) SYSTEM; SUMMARIZATION; COMPLEX QUESTIONS; MULTI DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION (MDS); QUESTION DECOMPOSITIONS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 33750307948     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1148170.1148211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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