FACTO: A fact lookup engine based on web tables

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 507-516

  Yin, Xiaoxin ^a   Tan, Wenzhao ^a   Liu, Chao ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Question answering; Web search

Indexed keywords

END-TO-END SYSTEMS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; LOOKUP ENGINES; LOOKUPS; QUESTION ANSWERING; STRUCTURED DATA; WEB SEARCH QUERIES; WEB SEARCHES; WEB TABLES;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 80052904034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1963405.1963477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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