Lightweight web-based fact repositories for textual question answering

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 87-96

  Pasca, Marius ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Fact extraction; Lightweight text analysis; Question answering; Web information retrieval

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS; DOCUMENT RETRIEVALS; DOMAIN SPECIFICS; FACT EXTRACTION; LIGHTWEIGHT TEXT ANALYSIS; MINING TECHNIQUES; NEW MODELS; OFFLINE; PROCESSING STAGES; QUESTION ANSWERING; STANDARD EVALUATIONS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; WEB DOCUMENTS; WEB INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SEARCHING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650422599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1321440.1321455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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