Answering Complex Questions via Exploiting Social Q&A Collection

IJCNLP 2011 - Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 956-964

  Wu, Youzheng ^a   Hori, Chiori ^a   Kawai, Hisashi ^a   Kashioka, Hideki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPLEX QUESTIONS; DATA SET; KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY; LEARN+; PERFORMANCE RANKINGS; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION TYPE; SENTENCE-BASED; TEST DATA; WORD TRANSLATION;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 84904325729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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