Designing an interactive open-domain question answering system

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-95

  Quarteroni, Silvia ^a   Manandhar, Suresh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARIFICATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPLEX QUESTIONS; DO-MAINS; EVALUATION RESULTS; MANAGEMENT MODELS; QA SYSTEMS; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; WEB SEARCH ENGINES;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 57649119876     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324908004919     Document Type: Article

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