Learning knowledge graphs for question answering through conversational dialog

NAACL HLT 2015 - 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 851-861

  Hixon, Ben ^a   Clark, Peter ^b   Hajishirzi, Hannaneh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence Seattle   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

DOMAIN MODEL; GENERAL KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUERY EXPANSION; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; RELATION-BASED;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84959088414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/n15-1086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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