IDRAAQ: New Arabic Question Answering system based on query expansion and Passage Retrieval

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 1178, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Abouenour, Lahsen ^a   Bouzoubaa, Karim ^a   Rosso, Paolo ^b  

^a MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arabic Question Answering; Arabic WordNet; Distance N gram Density Model; Passage Retrieval; Query Expansion

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EXPANSION; GRAPHIC METHODS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

ARABIC WORDNET; DENSITY MODELING; PASSAGE RETRIEVAL; QUERY EXPANSION; QUESTION ANSWERING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84922023891     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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