Aqua: A closed-domain question answering system

Information Systems Management

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 217-225

  Vargas Vera, Maria ^a   Lytras, Miltiadis D ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ontologies; Question answering; Similarity algorithm

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL TECHNOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ONTOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; REASONING PROCESS; SIMILARITY ALGORITHM; UNIFORM FRAMEWORK;

ALGORITHMS; ONTOLOGY;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954594812     PISSN: 10580530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10580530.2010.493825     Document Type: Article

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