A word clustering approach for language model-based sentence retrieval in question answering systems

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1911-1914

  Momtazi, Saeedeh ^a   Klakow, Dietrich ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Language modeling; Question answering; Sentence retrieval; Term clustering

Indexed keywords

CLASS-BASED; DATA SPARSITY; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; EXACT MATCHING; HIGHER ORDER; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE MODELING; N-GRAMS; QA TRACKS; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; TERM CLUSTERING; WORD CLUSTERING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PACKET NETWORKS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 74549164803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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