Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations

SIGIR 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 400-407

  Cui, Hang ^a   Sun, Renxu ^a   Li, Keya ^a   Kan, Min Yen ^a   Chua, Tat Seng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

dependency parsing; passage retrieval; question answering

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENCY PARSING; EQUIVALENT RELATIONSHIP; EXPECTATION - MAXIMIZATIONS; MATCHING DEPENDENCIES; MEAN RECIPROCAL RANKS; PASSAGE RETRIEVAL; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84885659212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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