Learning foci for question answering over Topic Maps

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint Conf. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th Int. Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, Proceedings of the Conf.

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 325-328

  Mikhailian, Alexander ^a   Dalmas, Tiphaine ^b   Pinchuk, Rani ^a  

^a ESEC Galaxia   (Belgium)

^b Aethys   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EXTRACTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; XML;

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; POINT EXTRACTION; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION FOCUS; SEMI STRUCTURED DATA; TOPIC MAPS; XML FORMAT; PERFORMANCE; SEMISTRUCTURED DATA;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; EXTRACTION;

EID: 79959409772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1667583.1667684     Document Type: Conference Paper

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