Flexible answer typing with discriminative preference ranking

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 666-674

  Pinchak, Christopher ^a   Lin, Dekang ^b   Rafiei, Davood ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS; DISCRIMINATIVE METHODS; DIVERSE FEATURES; PREFERENCE RANKING; QUESTION ANSWERING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 74549226388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1609067.1609141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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