Supervised approach to recognize question type in a QA system for health

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 136, Issue , 2008, Pages 407-412

  Cruchet, Sarah ^a   Gaudinat, Arnaud ^a   Boyer, Célia ^a  

^a Health on the Net Foundation   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Medical Type; Model detection; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SUPERVISED LEARNING; HEALTH; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EXTERNAL SOURCES; FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS; MEDICAL DOMAINS; MEDICAL TYPE; NON-SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC NETWORK; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; QA SYSTEM; QUESTION TYPE;

HEALTH; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

EID: 44349157132     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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