Exploiting Wikipedia and EuroWordNet to solve Cross-Lingual Question Answering

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 3473-3488

  Ferrández, Sergio ^a   Toral, Antonio ^b   Ferrández, Óscar ^a   Ferrández, Antonio ^a   Muñoz, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cross Lingual Question Answering; EuroWordNet; Inter Lingual Index; Multilingual knowledge resources; Natural Language Processing; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

CROSS-LINGUAL QUESTION ANSWERING; EUROWORDNET; INTER LINGUAL INDEX; MULTILINGUAL KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TELLURIC PROSPECTING; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 67849115820     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.06.031     Document Type: Article

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