Learning to identify single-snippet answers to definition questions

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Miliaraki, Spyridoula ^a   Androutsopoulos, Ion ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DEFINITION QUESTIONS; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; HYPERNYMS; LEARNING-BASED METHODS; LEXICAL PATTERNS; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE; WORDNET;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 85119099820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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