Exploiting linguistic indices and syntactic structures for multilingual question answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2005

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 1171, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Tanev, Hristo ^a   Kouylekov, Milen ^a   Magnini, Bernardo ^a   Negri, Matteo ^a   Simov, Kiril ^a  

^a BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Dependency trees; Multlinguality; Question answering; Syntactic index; Syntactic network; Syntactic structures; Tree edit distance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; FORESTRY; LINGUISTICS;

DEPENDENCY TREES; MULTLINGUALITY; QUESTION ANSWERING; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE; TREE EDIT DISTANCE;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84922033020     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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