Handling biographical questions with implicature

HLT/EMNLP 2005 - Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 596-603

  Feng, Donghui ^a   Hovy, Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGRAPHIES; DECISION TREES; MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ANSWER EXTRACTION; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; GUIDANCE STRATEGY; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; POTENTIAL TRAP; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; SVM(SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79960596951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220575.1220650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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