Complex answers: A case study using a WWW question answering system

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 301-323

  Buchholz, S ^a   Daelemans, W ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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EID: 85016597256     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324901002777     Document Type: Article

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