Enhancing Qa systems with complex temporal question processing capabilities

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Volumn 35, Issue , 2009, Pages 775-811

  Saquete, Estela ^a   Vicedo, Jose L ^a   Martínez Barco, Patricio ^a   Muñoz, Rafael ^a   Llorens, Hector ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

COMPLEX QUESTIONS; FACTUAL INFORMATION; MULTI-LAYERED SYSTEMS; MULTILAYERED ARCHITECTURE; TEMPORAL LAYERS; TEMPORAL QUESTIONS; TEMPORAL RELATION; TEMPORAL RESTRICTIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85041757317     PISSN: 10769757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1613/jair.2805     Document Type: Article

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