Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 459-468

  Bilotti, Matthew W ^a   Elsas, Jonathan ^a   Carbonell, Jaime ^a   Nyberg, Eric ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Annotation graphs; Committee perceptron; Learning to rank; Passage retrieval; Question answering; Text annotations

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION GRAPHS; LEARNING TO RANK; PASSAGE RETRIEVAL; PERCEPTRON; QUESTION ANSWERING; TEXT ANNOTATIONS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 78651314924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871437.1871498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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