Mining natural language answers from the web

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 123-135

  Neumann, Günter ^a   Xu, Feiyu ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES; TEXT PROCESSING;

INFORMATION EXTRACTION (IE); NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP); QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS (TEXTQA); VECTOR SPACES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 4143084735     PISSN: 15701263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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