Question answering using maximum entropy components

2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Ittycheriah, Abraham ^a   Franz, Martin ^a   Zhu, Wei Jing ^a   Ratnaparkhi, Adwait ^a   Mammone, Richard J ^b  

^a Rutgers University ^*  (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ENTROPY;

DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; MAXIMUM-ENTROPY; NAMED ENTITIES; PASSAGE RETRIEVAL; QUERY-WORDS; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; SELECTION ALGORITHM; TREC COLLECTION; TYPE PREDICTIONS;

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EID: 85118865386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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