Using syntactic and semantic structural kernels for classifying definition questions in Jeopardy!

EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 712-724

  Moschitti, Alessandro ^a   Chu Carroll, Jennifer ^b   Patwardhan, Siddharth ^b   Fan, James ^b   Riccardi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION MODELS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; KERNEL METHODS; QUESTION ANSWERING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053224203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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