Exploiting syntactic and shallow semantic kernels for question/answer classification

ACL 2007 - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 776-783

  Moschitti, Alessandro ^a   Quarteroni, Silvia ^b   Basili, Roberto ^c   Manandhar, Suresh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGUMENT STRUCTURES; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; KERNEL FUNCTION; RE-RANKING; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SYNTACTIC INFORMATION; TREE STRUCTURES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SYNTACTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

SEMANTICS;

EID: 70349231969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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