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Enhancing text quality in a question-answering system

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  1. Dept. de Informática, PUC/RJ, R. Marquês de São Vicente, 225, 22453, Rio de Janeiro / RJ, Brasil

    Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza & Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

  2. Philips Research Laboratories, Cross Oak Lane, RH1 5HA, Redhill, Surrey, UK

    Donia R. Scott

  3. ICMSC — Universidade de São Paulo, R. Carlos Botelho, 1465, 13560, São Carlos/SP, Brasil

    Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

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  1. Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza
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de Souza, C.S., Scott, D.R., Volpe Nunes, M.d.G. (1989). Enhancing text quality in a question-answering system. In: Martins, J.P., Morgado, E.M. (eds) EPIA 89. EPIA 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 390. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51665-4_88

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