Fact-based question decomposition in DeepQA

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages

  Kalyanpur, A ^a   Patwardhan, S ^a   Boguraev, B K ^a   Lally, A ^a   Chu Carroll, J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX QUESTIONS; FACTOID QUESTIONS; HEURISTIC SELECTIONS; QA SYSTEM; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 84859813986     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 21518556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/JRD.2012.2188934     Document Type: Review

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