Learning by reading: A prototype system, performance baseline and lessons learned

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 280-286

  Barker, Ken ^a   Agashe, Bhalchandra ^a   Chaw, Shaw Yi ^a   Fan, James ^a   Friedland, Noah ^c   Glass, Michael ^a   Hobbs, Jerry ^b   Hovy, Eduard ^b   Israel, David ^d   Kim, Doo Soon ^a   Mulkar Mehta, Rutu ^b   Patwardhan, Sourabh ^a   Porter, Bruce ^a   Tecuci, Dan ^a   Yeh, Peter ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Friedland Group Inc   (United States)

^d SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

HUMAN HEART; MACHINE READING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING ADVANCES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 36348957883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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