Interesting nuggets and their impact on definitional question answering

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 335-342

  Kor, Kian Wei ^a   Chua, Tat Seng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Definitional question answering; Human interest

Indexed keywords

DEFINITIONAL QUESTION ANSWERING; HUMAN INTEREST;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SYNTACTICS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 36448940090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277800     Document Type: Article

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