Contextual question answering for the health domain

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2313-2327

  Wong, Wilson ^a   Thangarajah, John ^a   Padgham, Lin ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

information seeking; text processing

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATA; CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS; DECAY MODEL; DELIVERY MECHANISM; HEALTH CONCERNS; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; INFORMATION NEED; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; KEYWORD-BASED SEARCH ENGINES; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION-ANSWER PAIRS; SYSTEM USE;

DIGITAL STORAGE; HEALTH; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84868092594     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22733     Document Type: Article

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