From symbolic to sub-symbolic information in question classification

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-154

  Silva, Joao ^a   Coheur, Luísa ^a   Mendes, Ana Cristina ^a   Wichert, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

(Sub)symbolic information; Headword; Question classification; WordNet

Indexed keywords

(SUB)SYMBOLIC INFORMATION; FEATURE SPACE; HEADWORD; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION CATEGORIES; QUESTION CLASSIFICATION; RULE BASE; RULE BASED; RULE-BASED CLASSIFIER; SEMANTIC CLASS; STATE OF THE ART; SUB-SYMBOLIC; WORDNET;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 79956078298     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10462-010-9188-4     Document Type: Article

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