A practically unsupervised learning method to identify single-snippet answers to definition questions on the web

HLT/EMNLP 2005 - Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 323-330

  Androutsopoulos, Ion ^a   Galanis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE LEARNING; SEARCH ENGINES; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

DEFINITION QUESTIONS; NEWS ARTICLES; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING METHOD;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 67649301837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220575.1220616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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