Textual resource acquisition and engineering

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages

  Chu Carroll, J ^a   Fan, J ^a   Schlaefer, N ^b   Zadrozny, W ^a  

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

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXISTING SYSTEMS; HIGH QUALITY; ITERATIVE DEVELOPMENT; QA SYSTEM; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ACQUISITION; SOURCE TRANSFORMATION; SYNTACTIC VARIATIONS; TASK SPECIFICATIONS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 84859876189     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 21518556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/JRD.2012.2185901     Document Type: Review

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