Question answering

Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 485-510

  Mollá Aliod, Diego ^a   Vicedo, José Luis ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUESTION ANSWERING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80054711883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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