FIDJI: Using syntax for validating answers in multiple documents

Information Retrieval

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 507-533

  Moriceau, Véronique ^a   Tannier, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Focused retrieval; Multi document validation; Question answering; Result aggregation; Syntactic analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957152727     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-010-9131-y     Document Type: Article

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