Leveraging community-built knowledge for type coercion in question answering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7032 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 144-156

  Kalyanpur, Aditya ^a   Murdock, J William ^a   Fan, James ^a   Welty, Christopher ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Linked Data; Ontologies; Question Answering; Type Checking

Indexed keywords

LINKED DATUM; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; SEMI-STRUCTURED; STRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE; TYPE INFORMATION; TYPECHECKING; WIKIPEDIA;

ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80055044617     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25093-4_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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