Improving question recommendation by exploiting information need

ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 1425-1434

  Li, Shuguang ^a   Manandhar, Suresh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION NEED; QUESTION ANSWERING; TRANSLATION MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 84859053970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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