Experimenting with a question answering system for the Arabic language

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 397-415

  Hammo, Bassam ^a   Abuleil, Saleem ^b   Lytinen, Steven ^c   Evens, Martha ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Proper nouns; Question answering; Semantic tagging; Shallow parsing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846011061     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-004-1917-3     Document Type: Article

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