Methods for using textual entailment in open-domain question answering

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 905-912

  Harabagiu, Sanda ^a   Hickl, Andrew ^a  

^a Language Computer Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATIC QUESTION ANSWERING; COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; OPEN DOMAIN QUESTION ANSWERING; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 77955029524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220175.1220289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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