Deep parsing in Watson

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages

  McCord, M C ^a   Murdock, J W ^a   Boguraev, B K ^a  

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

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Indexed keywords

CANDIDATE GENERATION; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; QUESTION ANALYSIS; REFERENCE DATA; RELATION EXTRACTION; TEXT CONTENT;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; RESEARCH;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 84859833148     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 21518556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/JRD.2012.2185409     Document Type: Review

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