Interpreting loosely encoded questions

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 399-405

  Fan, James ^a   Porter, Bruce ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); EXPERT SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; WEBSITES;

ADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP) EXAMS; ENCODED QUESTIONS; QUESTION-ANSWERING SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 9444236736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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