Evaluating passage retrieval approaches for question answering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2997, Issue , 2004, Pages 72-84

  Roberts, Lan ^a   Gaizauskas, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPONENT PERFORMANCE; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; OPEN DOMAIN QUESTION ANSWERING; PASSAGE RETRIEVAL; QA TRACKS; QUESTION ANSWERING; RECALL AND PRECISION; RECENT RESEARCHES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 35048825435     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24752-4_6     Document Type: Article

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