A modified information retrieval approach to produce answer candidates for question answering

LWA 2007 - Lernen - Wissen - Adaptivitat - Learning, Knowledge, and Adaptivity, Workshop Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 193-199

  Leveling, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DEFINITION QUESTIONS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL APPROACH; INTELLIGENT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ITS EVALUATION; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS; NEWSPAPER CORPUS; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; TEST DATA; TEST SETS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PATTERN MATCHING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84874002238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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