Improving the performance of the random walk model for answering complex questions

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 9-12

  Chali, Yllias ^a   Joty, Shafiq R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GRAPHIC METHODS; SEMANTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

COMPLEX QUESTIONS; GRAPH-BASED METHODS; MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION; MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS; RANDOM WALK MODELING; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; TOPIC-ORIENTED;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 68349106531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1557690.1557694     Document Type: Conference Paper

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