Exploiting paraphrases and deferred sense commitment to interpret questions more reliably

Coling 2010 - 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 171-179

  Clark, Peter ^a   Harrison, Phil ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORICS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; FORMAL REASONING; KNOWLEDGE BASE; PROCESSING MODULES; QUESTION ANSWERING; REASONER; RESTRICTED-DOMAIN; SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION; SEMANTIC ROLES; WORD SENSE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 80053387964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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