Type checking in open-domain question answering

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 110, Issue , 2004, Pages 398-402

  Schlobach, Stefan ^a   Olsthoorn, Marius ^a   De Rijke, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

DATA-SOURCE; HIGH CONFIDENCE; IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; OPEN DOMAIN QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; RE-RANKING; SEMANTIC TYPES; SEMISTRUCTURED DATA; TYPECHECKING;

REDUNDANCY;

EID: 85017375953     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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