Answer comparison in automated question answering

Journal of Applied Logic

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-120

  Dalmas, Tiphaine ^a   Webber, Bonnie ^a  

^a Division of Informatics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Information fusion; Model view controller; Multiple answers; Question answering; Web search

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ANSWER MODELING; CLUSTERING; MODEL-VIEW-CONTROLLER; MULTIPLE ANSWERS; QUESTION ANSWERING (QA); WEB SEARCH;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33846190598     PISSN: 15708683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jal.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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