Data-driven type checking in open domain question answering

Journal of Applied Logic

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 121-143

  Schlobach, Stefan ^a   Ahn, David ^b   de Rijke, Maarten ^b   Jijkoun, Valentin ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data driven methods; Question answering; Type checking

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DATA-DRIVEN METHODS; QUESTION ANSWERING; TYPE CHECKING;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 33846204703     PISSN: 15708683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jal.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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