Evaluating discourse-based answer extraction for why-question answering

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 735-736

  Verberne, Suzan ^a   Boves, Lou ^a   Oostdijk, Nelleke ^a   Coppen, Peter Arno ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Answer extraction; Discourse annotation; RST; Why questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448976150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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