Leveraging Wikipedia Characteristics for Search and Candidate Generation in Question Answering

Proceedings of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 872-877

  Chu Carroll, Jennifer ^a   Fan, James ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EXTRACTION;

ANCHOR TEXTS; ANSWER EXTRACTION; CANDIDATE GENERATION; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; EXTRACTION TECHNOLOGY; ONTOLOGY'S; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION-ANSWER PAIRS; WIKIPEDIA;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84949913155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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