Monolingual Web-based Factoid Question Answering in Chinese, Swedish, English and Japanese

EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Question Answering, MLQA 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 45-52

  Whittaker, E W D ^a   Hamonic, J ^a   Yang, D ^a   Klingberg, T ^a   Furui, S ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; FACTOID QUESTIONS; PERFORMANCE; PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION ANSWERING TASK; STATISTICAL PATTERN CLASSIFICATION; SWEDISHS; WEB BASED;

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EID: 78751678571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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