Asking and evaluating natural language questions

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 2051-2056

  Rothe, Anselm ^a   Lake, Brenden M ^b   Gureckis, Todd M ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

active learning; Bayesian modeling; information search; question asking

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING;

ACTIVE LEARNING; BAYESIAN MODELLING; HUMAN COGNITION; HYPOTHESIS SPACE; INFORMATION SEARCH; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS; QUESTION-ASKING; RECENT RESEARCHES; SIMPLE TYPES;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 85072917198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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