User modelling for personalized question answering

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

Volumn 4733 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 386-397

  Quarteroni, Silvia ^a   Manandhar, Suresh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; USER INTERFACES;

PERSONALIZATION COMPONENTS; QUESTION ANSWERING; USER-CENTERED EVALUATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 38049175260     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74782-6_34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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