Exploiting syntactic and shallow semantic kernels to improve random walks for complex question answering

Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 123-130

  Chali, Yllias ^a   Joty, Shafiq R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION THEORY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

COMPLEX QUESTIONS; MULTI DOCUMENTS; MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS; RANDOM WALKS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCES; SEMANTIC INFORMATIONS;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 57649219773     PISSN: 10823409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI.2008.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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