Combining deep linguistics analysis and surface pattern learning: A hybrid approach to Chinese definitional question answering

HLT/EMNLP 2005 - Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 307-314

  Peng, Fuchun ^a   Weischedel, Ralph ^a   Licuanan, Ana ^a   Xu, Jinxi ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFINITIONAL QUESTION ANSWERING; HYBRID APPROACH; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; PATTERN LEARNING; PATTERN-BASED SYSTEMS; QA SYSTEM; SURFACE PATTERN;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; PATTERN MATCHING; TEXTILE PRINTING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247892944     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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