Towards entailment-based Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2006

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 1172, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kouylekov, Milen ^a   Negri, Matteo ^a   Magnini, Bernardo ^a   Coppola, Bonaventura ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Answer validation; Question answering; Recognizing textual entailment; Tree edit distance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

ANSWER VALIDATION; CROSS LANGUAGES; CROSS-LANGUAGE QUESTION; MODULAR FRAMEWORK; MODULE-BASED; QUESTION ANSWERING; RECOGNIZING TEXTUAL ENTAILMENTS; TREE EDIT DISTANCE;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84922032319     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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