Learning answer-entailing structures for machine comprehension

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 239-249

  Sachan, Mrinmaya ^a   Dubey, Avinava ^a   Xing, Eric P ^b   Richardson, Matthew ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTI-TASK LEARNING;

CORPUS OF QUESTIONS; HIDDEN STRUCTURES; OVERALL ACCURACIES; QUESTION ANSWERING TASK; SUBTASKS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84943748312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p15-1024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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