Answering english questions using foreign-language, semi-structured sources

ICSC 2007 International Conference on Semantic Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 439-445

  Katz, Boris ^a   Borchardt, Gary ^a   Felshin, Sue ^a   Shen, Yuan ^a   Zaccak, Gabriel ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACCESS; FOREIGN LANGUAGES; HIGH-PRECISION; INFORMATION ACCESS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MACHINE TRANSLATION; SEMI-STRUCTURED SOURCES;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); WORLD WIDE WEB;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 47749147707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSC.2007.59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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