Advances in open domain question answering
Automated question answering - the ability of a machine to answer questions, simple or complex, posed in ordinary human language - is one of the most exciting technological developments. This book looks at the various approaches to automated question answering. It serves as a "how-to" hand...
| Other Authors: | Strzalkowski, Tomek., Harabagiu, Sanda M., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht :
Springer,
2006.
Dordrecht : 2006. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxvi, 566 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series: |
Text, speech, and language technology.
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| Summary: |
Automated question answering - the ability of a machine to answer questions, simple or complex, posed in ordinary human language - is one of the most exciting technological developments. This book looks at the various approaches to automated question answering. It serves as a "how-to" handbook for IT practitioners and system developers. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Approaches to Question Answering -- Some Advanced Features Of Cc's Poweranswer -- A Statistical Approach For Open Domain Question Answering -- Coreference In Q & A -- Question Processing -- Questions And Intentions -- Question Answering As Dialogue With Data -- Coping With Alternate Formulations Of Questions And Answers -- Question Answering as Information Retrieval -- Sentence Ranking Using Keywords And Meta-Keywords -- Question Answering By Passage Selection -- Query Modulation For Web-Based Question Answering -- Answer Extraction -- Question Answering By Predictive Annotation -- Question Answering Supported By Multiple Levels Of Information Extraction -- How To Select An Answer String? -- Evaluating Question Answering Systems -- Evaluating Question Answering System Performance -- Evaluating Interactive Question Answering -- Habitability In Question-Answering Systems -- Perspectives on Question Answering -- Question Answering: Technology For Intelligence Analysis -- Reverse-Engineering Question/Answer Collections From Ordinary Text -- New Directions In Question Answering. Automated question answering - the ability of a machine to answer questions, simple or complex, posed in ordinary human language - is one of the most exciting technological developments. This book looks at the various approaches to automated question answering. It serves as a "how-to" handbook for IT practitioners and system developers. University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login off-campus. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxvi, 566 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781402047466 1402047460 1402047444 9781402047442 9781402047459 1402047452 661063470X 9786610634705 |
| Access: |
University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login off-campus. |