A Machine Learning Approach to Introspection in a Question Answering System

Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 265-272

  Czuba, Krzysztof ^a   Prager, John ^b   Chu Carroll, Jennifer ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MACHINE LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARCHITECTURE-BASED; CONCEPT LEARNING; ENGINE OUTPUT; FEATURE-BASED; INTERMEDIATE RESULTS; LEARNING PROBLEM; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 85020632510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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