Improving question classification by feature extraction and selection

Indian Journal of Science and Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 17, 2016, Pages

  Van Tu, Nguyen ^a   Anh Cuong, Le ^b  

^a VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Feature selection; Question answering systems; Question classification; Question patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969929993     PISSN: 09746846     EISSN: 09745645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i17/93160     Document Type: Article

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