How to generate cloze questions from definitions: A syntactic approach

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-11-04, Issue , 2011, Pages 19-22

  Gates, Donna ^a   Aist, Greg ^b   Mostow, Jack ^a   McKeown, Margaret ^c   Bey, Juliet ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; COLLINS; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; PARSE TREES; PHRASE STRUCTURE; SYNTACTIC APPROACH; SYNTACTIC PATTERNS;

FORESTRY; PATTERN MATCHING;

SYNTACTICS;

FORESTRY; TREES;

EID: 84856455124     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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