Question Answering over structured data: An entailment-based approach to question analysis

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 305-311

  Negri, Matteo ^a   Kouylekov, Milen ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Relation extraction; Restricted domain question answering; Textual entailment

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; TEXT PROCESSING;

CULTURAL EVENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS; QUESTION ANALYSIS; QUESTION ANSWERING; RELATION EXTRACTION; STRUCTURED DATA; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT; TEXTUAL PATTERNS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84866870416     PISSN: 13138502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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