The importance of named entities in cross-lingual question answering scenarios

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP

Volumn 2007-January, Issue , 2007, Pages 188-192

  Ferrández, Sergio ^a   Ferrández, Óscar ^a   Ferrández, Antonio ^a   Muñoz, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cross Lingual Question Answering; Multilingual environments; Named Entity Recognition

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; LINGUISTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

'CURRENT; CLEF 2004; CROSS-LINGUAL; CROSS-LINGUAL QUESTION ANSWERING; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; MULTILINGUAL ENVIRONMENTS; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; OVERALL ACCURACIES; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84959045212     PISSN: 13138502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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