A language independent method for question classification

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Solorio, Thamar ^a   Pérez Coutiño, Manuel ^a   Montes Y Gómez, Manuel ^a,b   Villaseñor Pineda, Luis ^a   López López, Aurelio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; LEXICAL FEATURES; NAMED ENTITY EXTRACTORS; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION CLASSIFICATION; SIMPLE APPROACH; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84872139216     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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