An analysis of clarification dialogue for question answering

Proceedings of the 2003 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, HLT-NAACL 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  de Boni, Marco ^a,b   Manandhar, Suresh ^b  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CLARIFICATION DIALOGUES; FOLLOW UP; OPEN DOMAIN QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS;

CLARIFIERS;

EID: 85106094223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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