Speeding up QA: An index structure for question queries

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1215-1218

  Hu, Maidong ^a   Elamy, Abdel Halim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inverted index; QA systems; Scalability

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SEARCH ENGINES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (ECE); INDEX STRUCTURES; INVERTED INDICES; QA SYSTEMS; QUESTION ANSWERING (QA) SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME; RETRIEVAL (MIR); SEARCH TIME; TEXT CORPORA;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 48749098008     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2007.310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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