Enhancing performance with a learnable strategy for multiple question answering modules

ETRI Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 419-428

  Oh, Hyo Jung ^a   Myaeng, Sung Hyon ^b   Jang, Myung Gil ^a  

^a I/O System Team   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Question answering; Strategy learning

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; MACHINE LEARNING; QA SYSTEM; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; ROUTING APPROACH; STRATEGY LEARNING;

EDUCATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROBOT LEARNING;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 68949116761     PISSN: 12256463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4218/etrij.09.0108.0388     Document Type: Article

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