Assessing the impact of thesaurus-based expansion techniques in QA-centric IR

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5706 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 325-332

  Sarmento, Luís ^a   Teixeira, Jorge ^a   Oliveira, Eugénio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANSWER EXTRACTION; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; QUERY EXPANSION; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION SERVICES; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

THESAURI;

EID: 70549110199     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04447-2_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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