A Language Modeling Approach to Passage Question Answering
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This paper reports our efforts on developing a language modeling approach to passage question answering. In particular, we address the following two problems: (i) generalized language modeling for question classification; (ii) constrained language modeling for passage retrieval.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003