Answer selection in a multi-stream open domain question answering system

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

Volumn 2997, Issue , 2004, Pages 99-111

  Jijkoun, Valentin ^a   De Rijke, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REDUNDANCY;

MULTI-STREAM; MULTI-STREAM ARCHITECTURE; MULTIPLE RESOURCES; OPEN DOMAIN QUESTION ANSWERING; PIPELINE ARCHITECTURE; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION TYPE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 35048895444     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24752-4_8     Document Type: Article

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