Interpreting consumer health questions: The role of anaphora and ellipsis

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 54-62

  Kilicoglu, Halil ^a   Fiszman, Marcelo ^a   Demner Fushman, Dina ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BIOMEDICAL QUESTION ANSWERING; CONSUMER HEALTHS; LEXICAL INFORMATION; QUESTION ANSWERING; RULE BASED; SYNTACTIC INFORMATION;

HEALTH;

EID: 84960871339     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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