A semantic approach for question classification using WordNet and Wikipedia

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1935-1943

  Ray, Santosh Kumar ^a   Singh, Shailendra ^b   Joshi, B P ^c  

^a Birla Institute of Technology   (Oman)

^b Samsung Electronics India Software Operations Ltd   (India)

^c BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Answer validation; Google; Question Answering System; Question classification; Wikipedia; WordNet

Indexed keywords

ANSWER VALIDATION; GOOGLE; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION CLASSIFICATION; WIKIPEDIA; WORDNET;

ONTOLOGY; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; STANDARDS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956056183     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2010.06.012     Document Type: Article

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