Learning unsupervised SVM classifier for answer selection in web question answering

EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 33-41

  Wu, Youzheng ^a   Zhang, Ruiqiang ^a   Hu, Xinhui ^a   Kashioka, Hideki ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING WEB; COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; PATTERN-BASED MODELS; PERFORMANCE RANKINGS; QUESTION ANSWERING; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TRAINING DATA; UNSUPERVISED SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 63449124482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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