Identification of the question focus: Combining syntactic analysis and ontology-based lookup through the user interaction

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 361-368

  Damljanovic, Danica ^a   Agatonovic, Milan ^a   Cunningham, Hamish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONTOLOGY;

KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES; ONTOLOGY-BASED SYSTEMS; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION CATEGORIES; SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS; SYNTACTIC PARSING; SYNTACTIC PATTERNS; USER INTERACTION;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 85037371009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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