Minimally supervised question classification on fine-grained taxonomies

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 303-334

  Tomás, David ^a   Vicedo, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Minimally supervised; Question answering; Question classification

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; TAXONOMIES;

CORPUS OF QUESTIONS; FINE GRAINED; LINGUISTIC RESOURCES; MINIMALLY SUPERVISED; PLAIN TEXT; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION CLASSIFICATION; STATISTICAL INFORMATION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84880081345     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-012-0557-y     Document Type: Article

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