Towards multi-stream question answering using answer validation

Informatica (Ljubljana)

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-54

  Téllez Valero, Alberto ^a   Montes y Gömez, Manuel ^a   Villaseñor Pineda, Luis ^a   Peñas Padilla, Anselmo ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Answer validation; Information fusion; Question answering; Textual entailment

Indexed keywords

MULTI-STREAM; MULTIPLE SEARCH; PARTICIPATING SYSTEMS; QA SYSTEM; QUESTION ANSWERING; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT; VALIDATION APPROACH;

INFORMATION FUSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; TEXT PROCESSING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HYDRAULICS;

EID: 77951956404     PISSN: 03505596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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