Scaling question answering to the web

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 150-161

  Kwok, Cody C T ^a   Etzioni, Oren ^a   Weld, Daniel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

FULLY AUTOMATED; MULTIPLE SEARCH; NATURAL LANGUAGE PARSING; QUESTION ANSWERING; WEALTH OF INFORMATION; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84944091179     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/371920.371973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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