Developing an approach for why-question answering

EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 39-46

  Verberne, Suzan ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT PROJECTS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA SET; QUESTION ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 44649134325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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