QARAB: A Question Answering System to Support the Arabic Language

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Hammo, Bassam ^a   Abu Salem, Hani ^a   Lytinen, Steven ^a   Evens, Martha ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NEWSPRINT;

ARABIC LANGUAGES; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PRIMARY SOURCES; PROCESSING APPROACH; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; STANDARD INFORMATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 85149107752     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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