Using and extending WordNet to support question-answering

GWC 2008: 4th Global WordNet Conference, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 111-119

  Clark, Peter ^a   Fellbaum, Christiane ^b   Hobbs, Jerry ^c  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Question answering; Textual entailment; WordNet; World knowledge

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

QUESTION ANSWERING; SEMANTIC TASKS; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT; WORDNET; WORLD KNOWLEDGE;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84904693640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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