Beyond Keywords: Automated Question Answering on the Web.

The article discusses the Web search portal industry, examining the ability of computer programmers to develop completely automated open-domain question answering (QA) on the Web. The goal of QA, the authors indicate, is to take questions written by users in natural language and provide specific ans...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 9; pp. 60 - 66
Autores principales:	ROUSSINOV, DMITRI, WEIGUO FAN, ROBLES-FLORES, JOSÉ
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Sep2008
Materias:	Question answering systems Web search engines Internet searching Electronic information resource searching Information-seeking strategies Search engines
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Sumario:	The article discusses the Web search portal industry, examining the ability of computer programmers to develop completely automated open-domain question answering (QA) on the Web. The goal of QA, the authors indicate, is to take questions written by users in natural language and provide specific answers. Topics include questions on Google treated as 'bags,' or unordered sets of words, limited communication channels, and the high stock prices of search-portal companies. Also discussed are advances in open-domain (Web) QA.