A probabilistic graphical model for joint answer ranking in question answering

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 343-350

  Ko, Jeongwoo ^a   Nyberg, Eric ^a   Si, Luo ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Answer ranking; Probabilistic graphical model; Question answering

Indexed keywords

ANSWER RANKING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODEL; QUESTION ANSWERING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 36448930485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277801     Document Type: Article

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