Answer extraction and ranking strategies for definitional question answering using linguistic features and definition terminology

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 353-364

  Han, Kyoung Soo ^a   Song, Young In ^a   Kim, Sang Bum ^a   Rim, Hae Chang ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Definition terminology; Definitional question answering; Passage expansion; Phrase extraction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SYNTACTICS;

DEFINITION TERMINOLOGY; DEFINITIONAL QUESTION ANSWERING; PASSAGE EXPANSION; PHRASE EXTRACTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33751025717     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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