A Question-Answering System for AP Chemistry: Assessing KR&R Technologies

Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference, KR 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 488-497

  Barker, Ken ^a   Chaudhri, Vinay K ^b   Chaw, Shaw Yi ^a   Clark, Peter E ^c   Fan, James ^a   Israel, David ^b   Mishra, Sunil ^b   Porter, Bruce ^a   Romero, Pedro ^d   Tecuci, Dan ^a   Yeh, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSING KNOWLEDGE; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; CHALLENGE PROBLEMS; FIELDED SYSTEMS; FRAME SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING; KNOWLEDGE-REPRESENTATION; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION TYPE;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 58049111902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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