Question answering using enhanced lexical semantic models

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 1744-1753

  Yih, Wen Tau ^a   Chang, Ming Wei ^a   Meek, Christopher ^a   Pastusiak, Andrzej ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORESTRY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SYNTACTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BASELINE SYSTEMS; BENCHMARK DATASETS; DEPENDENCY TREES; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; QUESTION ANSWERING; SENTENCE SELECTION; SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS;

SEMANTICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION; LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84904549928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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