Typing candidate answers using type coercion

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages

  Murdock, J W ^a   Kalyanpur, A ^a   Welty, C ^a   Fan, J ^a   Ferrucci, D A ^a   Gondek, D C ^a   Zhang, L ^b   Kanayama, H ^c  

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

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^c IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS;

ANIMALS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84859857107     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 21518556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/JRD.2012.2187036     Document Type: Review

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