Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering

SIGIR 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 384-391

  Cui, Hang ^a   Kan, Min Yen ^a   Chua, Tat Seng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

definitional question answering; probabilistic models; soft pattern

Indexed keywords

DEFINITIONAL QUESTION ANSWERING; DEGREE OF MATCHES; LANGUAGE VARIATION; LEXICO-SYNTACTIC PATTERNS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROBABILISTIC PROCESS; PROFILE HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; SOFT PATTERN;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

PATTERN MATCHING;

EID: 34247846876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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