Term weighting schemes for question categorization

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1009-1021

  Quan, Xiaojun ^a   Wenyin, Liu ^a   Qiu, Bite ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Question answering systems; question categorization; term weighting; text categorization

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT CATEGORIZATION; EXISTING METHOD; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION CATEGORIZATION; TERM WEIGHTING SCHEME; TERM-WEIGHTING; TEXT CATEGORIZATION; WEIGHTING METHODS; WORK-RELATED;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 79953066920     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.154     Document Type: Article

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