Learning named entity hyponyms for question answering

IJCNLP 2008 - 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 799-804

  McNamee, Paul ^a   Snow, Rion ^b   Schone, Patrick ^c   Mayfield, James ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Defense Fort George G ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TENNIS;

AUTOMATIC QUESTION ANSWERING; HYPERNYMIC; HYPONYMS; LEXICAL ONTOLOGY; NAMED ENTITIES; PERFORMANCE; PROPER NOUNS; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; WORDNET;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 85031715728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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