Overview of the 2009 QA track: Towards a common task for QA, focused IR and automatic summarization systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6203 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 355-365

  Moriceau, Veronique ^a   Sanjuan, Eric ^b   Tannier, Xavier ^a   Bellot, Patrice ^b  

^a UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SUMMARIZATION; AUTOMATIC SUMMARIZATION SYSTEM; COMPLEX QUESTIONS; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; INFORMATION NEED; QA TRACKS; QUESTION ANSWERING; SET OF QUESTIONS;

MARKUP LANGUAGES; XML; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955311338     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14556-8_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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