The role of information retrieval in answering complex questions

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference Poster Sessions

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 523-530

  Lin, Jimmy ^a  

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES;

COMPLEX INFORMATION; COMPLEX QUESTIONS; INTEGRAL COMPONENTS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE; QUESTION ANSWERING; RETRIEVAL ENGINES; SENTENCE LEVEL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84959059345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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