Relation extraction and scoring in DeepQA

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages

  Wang, C ^a   Kalyanpur, A ^a   Fan, J ^a   Boguraev, B K ^a   Gondek, D C ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATTERN SPECIFICATIONS; PROBLEM AREAS; QUESTION ANSWERING; RELATION EXTRACTION; RULE-BASED APPROACH; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL RELATIONS; TRAINING DATA; TRANSFER LEARNING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; RESEARCH;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84859833081     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 21518556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/JRD.2012.2187239     Document Type: Review

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