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Question types in digital reference: An evaluation of question taxonomies

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey Pomerantz

Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 105 KB
Volume: 39
Category: Article
ISSN: 0044-7870
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14503901102

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This study evaluates four taxonomies of question types to determine the expressiveness of each for questions received by digital reference services. The result is a faceted classification scheme that can be used as a basis for automating parts of the digital reference question answering process.

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