Generating exact- and ranked partially-matched answers to questions in advertisements

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 217-228

  Qumsiyeh, Rani ^a   Pera, Maria S ^a   Ng, Yiu Kai ^a  

^a 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUERY PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; WEBSITES;

BOOLEAN OPERATORS; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS; PROCESSING STRATEGIES; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; SEARCH MECHANISM; SELECTION CRITERIA; SIMILARITY RANKINGS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84863750064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508097     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14778/2078331.2078337     Document Type: Article

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