Feature-based selection of dependency paths in ad hoc information retrieval

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 507-516

  Maxwell, K Tamsin ^a   Oberlander, Jon ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEARCH ENGINES;

DOCUMENT RANKING; FEATURE-BASED; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE GAIN; QUESTION ANSWERING; SHORT TEXTS; SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING; TREC COLLECTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84907308529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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