Building structures from classifiers for passage reranking

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 969-978

  Severyn, Aliaksei ^a   Nicosia, Massimo ^a   Moschitti, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b QATAR FOUNDATION   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Kernel methods; Learning to rank; Question answering; Structural kernels

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFIERS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; KERNEL METHODS; LEARNING TO RANK; MACHINE LEARNING MODELS; QUESTION ANSWERING; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; STRUCTURAL KERNELS;

FORESTRY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; LANGUAGES;

EID: 84889594940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2505515.2505688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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