Natural language question answering: The view from here

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 275-300

  Hirschman, L ^a   Gaizauskas, R ^b  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84873462900     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324901002807     Document Type: Article

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