Automatic derivation of surface text patterns for a maximum entropy based question answering system

Proceedings of the 2003 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Short Papers, HLT-NAACL 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 85-87

  Ravichandran, Deepak ^a   Ittycheriah, Abraham ^b   Roukos, Salim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC DERIVATION; ENTROPY-BASED; MAXIMUM-ENTROPY; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; SURFACE TEXT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84896063331     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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