Corpus-based Question Answering for why-Questions

IJCNLP 2008 - 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 418-425

  Higashinaka, Ryuichiro ^a   Isozaki, Hideki ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS; CORPUS-BASED; CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES; MEAN RECIPROCAL RANKS; PERFORMANCE; QA SYSTEM; QUESTION ANSWERING; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; SYSTEM USE;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85120352684     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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