Semantic search via XML fragments: A high-precision approach to IR

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 445-452

  Chu Carroll, Jennifer ^a   Prager, John ^a   Czuba, Krzysztof ^b   Ferrucci, David ^a   Duboue, Pablo ^a  

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

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Question answering; Semantic search; XML retrieval

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; QUERY LANGUAGES; XML; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES;

QUESTION ANSWERING; SEMANTIC SEARCH; TARGET INFORMATION; XML RETRIEVAL;

SEMANTICS; SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33750315239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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