Improving QA accuracy by question inversion

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 1073-1080

  Prager, John ^a   Duboue, Pablo ^a   Chu Carroll, Jennifer ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

QA SYSTEM;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 34548793625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220175.1220310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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