Question utility: A novel static ranking of question search

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 1231-1236

  Song, Young In ^a   Lin, Chin Yew ^b   Cao, Yunbo ^b   Rim, Hae Chang ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIONICS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

LANGUAGE MODELS; LINEAR MODELS; RELEVANCE SCORES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 57749176421     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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