Improving the performance of question answering with semantically equivalent answer patterns

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-67

  Kosseim, Leila ^a   Yousefi, Jamileh ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Natural language processing; Question answering; Question reformulations; Semantic relations

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION REFORMULATIONS; SEMANTIC RELATIONS;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 44349144407     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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