A Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning for Question-Answering

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint Conf. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th Int. Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, Proceedings of the Conf.

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 719-727

  Celikyilmaz, Asli ^a   Thint, Marcus ^b   Huang, Zhiheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b British Telecom   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GRAPHIC METHODS; LARGE DATASETS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SUPERVISED LEARNING; TEXT PROCESSING;

DATAPOINTS; GRAPH-BASED; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING TASK; QUESTION TYPE; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; SENTENCE STRUCTURES; STRUCTURE MATCHING; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85075209433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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