A new question answering system for the Arabic language

American Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 797-805

  Kanaan, Ghassan ^a   Hammouri, Awni ^b   Al Shalabi, Riyad ^a   Swalha, Majdi ^c  

^a Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Science   (Jordan)

^b MUTAH UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Natural language processing; Question answering system

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649085998     PISSN: 15469239     EISSN: 15543641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3844/ajas.2009.797.805     Document Type: Article

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