Fact-based question decomposition for candidate answer re-ranking

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2045-2048

  Kalyanpur, Aditya ^a   Patwardhan, Siddharth ^a   Boguraev, Branimir ^a   Lally, Adam ^a   Chu Carroll, Jennifer ^a  

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

Author keywords

question answering; question decomposition

Indexed keywords

FACTOID QUESTIONS; QA SYSTEM; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; RE-RANKING;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 83055179291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2063576.2063886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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