QUESTION ANSWERING AS A KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY TECHNIQUE

Yllias Chali

2008

Abstract

The size of the publicly indexable world-wide-web has provably surpassed several billions of documents and as yet growth shows no sign of leveling off. Search engines are therefore increasingly challenged when trying to maintain current indices using exhaustive crawling. Focused Retrieval provides more direct access to relevant information. In this paper we investigate the various aspects of discovering knowledge about entities such as people, places, groups, and about complex events.

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Chali Y. (2008). QUESTION ANSWERING AS A KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY TECHNIQUE . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-27-2, pages 339-342. DOI: 10.5220/0001531003390342


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@conference{webist08,
author={Yllias Chali},
title={QUESTION ANSWERING AS A KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY TECHNIQUE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2008},
pages={339-342},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001531003390342},
isbn={978-989-8111-27-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - QUESTION ANSWERING AS A KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY TECHNIQUE
SN - 978-989-8111-27-2
AU - Chali Y.
PY - 2008
SP - 339
EP - 342
DO - 10.5220/0001531003390342