Question classification using head words and their hypernyms

EMNLP 2008 - 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 927-936

  Huang, Zhiheng ^a   Thint, Marcus ^b   Qin, Zengchang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BT Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

BENCHMARK DATASETS; FEATURE SETS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODELS; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION CLASSIFICATION; RICH FEATURES; SEMANTIC FEATURES; WORD-SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956056624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613835     Document Type: Conference Paper

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