Overview of the TREC 2006 question answering track

NIST Special Publication

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 99-116

  Dang, Hoa Trang ^a   Lin, Jimmy ^b   Kelly, Diane ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX INFORMATION; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; MAIN TASKS; PREVIOUS YEAR; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING TRACK;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84873554204     PISSN: 1048776X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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