Statistical source expansion for question answering

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 345-354

  Schlaefer, Nico ^a   Chu Carroll, Jennifer ^b   Nyberg, Eric ^a   Fan, James ^b   Zadrozny, Wlodek ^b   Ferrucci, David ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

information retrieval; jeopardy; question answering; TREC; watson

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL SOURCES; HUMAN CONSUMPTION; JEOPARDY; MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION; PERFORMANCE GAIN; QA SYSTEM; QUESTION ANSWERING; RELATED CONTENT; STATISTICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL SOURCES; TEXT CORPORA; TREC; WATSON; WEB CONTENT;

ALGORITHMS; EXPANSION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 83055181778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2063576.2063632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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