Evita: A robust event recognizer for QA systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 700-707

  Saurí, Roser ^a   Knippen, Robert ^a   Verhagen, Marc ^a   Pustejovsky, James ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVENT EXTRACTION; F-MEASURE; NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT; PERFORMANCE RATIO; QA SYSTEM; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053226511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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