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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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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 9; pp. 60 - 66
Main Authors: ROUSSINOV, DMITRI, WEIGUO FAN, ROBLES-FLORES, JOSÉ
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Sep2008
Subjects:
Question answering systems
Web search engines
Internet searching
Electronic information resource searching
Information-seeking strategies
Search engines
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost