Priberam's question answering system in a cross-language environment

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 1172, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cassan, Adán ^a   Figueira, Helena ^a   Martins, André ^a   Mendes, Afonso ^a   Mendes, Pedro ^a   Pinto, Cláudia ^a   Vidal, Daniel ^a  

^a Priberam Informática ^*  (Portugal)

Author keywords

Question answering; Questions beyond factoids

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS;

LANGUAGE INDEPENDENCE; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION CATEGORIES; QUESTIONS BEYOND FACTOIDS; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINES; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84922023929     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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