Educational question answering based on social media content

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 133-140

  Gurevych, Iryna ^a   Bernhard, Delphine ^a   Ignatova, Kateryna ^a   Toprak, Cigdem ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Question answering; Question subjectivity; Social media

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEDIA CONTENT; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION CLASSIFICATION; QUESTION SUBJECTIVITY; SIMPLE++; SOCIAL MEDIA;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 73149098490     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-028-5-133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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