Lexical and Syntactic knowledge for Information Retrieval

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 692-705

  Ferrández, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Information Retrieval; Lexical and syntactic relationships; Natural Language Processing; Question Answering; Term Proximity

Indexed keywords

DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; INDEX TERMS; LEXICAL AND SYNTACTIC RELATIONSHIPS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING TASK; SIMILARITY MEASURE; TERM PROXIMITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 79960846723     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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