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Experiments in automated lexicon building for text searching

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Barry Schiffman,

Kathleen R. McKeownAuthors Info & Claims

COLING '00: Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2

Pages 719 - 725

https://doi.org/10.3115/992730.992750

Published: 31 July 2000 Publication History

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This paper describes experiments in the automatic construction of lexicons that would be useful in searching large document collections for text fragments that address a specific information need, such as an answer to a question.

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Agichtein ELawrence SGravano L(2004)Learning to find answers to questions on the WebACM Transactions on Internet Technology10.1145/990301.9903034:2(129-162)Online publication date: 1-May-2004
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Agichtein ELawrence SGravano L(2004)Learning to find answers to questions on the WebACM Transactions on Internet Technology10.1145/990301.9903034:2(129-162)Online publication date: 1-May-2004
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Hahn UMarkó KGil YMusen MShavlik J(2001)Joint knowledge capture for grammars and ontologiesProceedings of the 1st international conference on Knowledge capture10.1145/500737.500751(68-75)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2001
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