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Advances in Open Domain Question Answering

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Tomek Strzalkowski

    1. State University of New York at Albany, Albany, USA

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  2. Sanda M. Harabagiu

    1. University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA

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  • Gives a comprehensive look at current approaches to automated question answering
  • Suitable for newcomers to the field and also professionals wishing to study in this area
  • Will provide the readers with in-depth practical knowledge of this critical new technology

Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 32)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Approaches to Question Answering

    1. Some Advanced Features Of Cc's Poweranswer

      • Dan Moldovan, Marius Pasca, Mihai Surdeanu
      Pages 3-34

    2. A Statistical Approach For Open Domain Question Answering

      • Abraham Ittycheriah
      Pages 35-69

    3. Coreference In Q&A

      • Jose L. Vicedo, Antonio Ferrández
      Pages 71-96

  3. Question Processing

    1. Questions And Intentions

      • Sanda M. Harabagiu
      Pages 99-147

    2. Question Answering As Dialogue With Data

      • Tomek Strzalkowski, Sharon Small, Hilda Hardy, Paul Kantor, Wu Min, Sean Ryan et al.
      Pages 149-188

    3. Coping With Alternate Formulations Of Questions And Answers

      • Brigitte Grau, Olivier Ferret, Martine Hurault-Plantet, Christian Jacquemin, Laura Monceaux, Isabelle Robba et al.
      Pages 189-226

  4. Question Answering as Information Retrieval

    1. Sentence Ranking Using Keywords And Meta-Keywords

      • Laszlo Grunfeld, Kui-Lam Kwok
      Pages 229-258

    2. Question Answering By Passage Selection

      • Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam, Egidio L. Terra
      Pages 259-283

    3. Query Modulation For Web-Based Question Answering

      • Dragomir R. Radev, Hong Qi, Zhiping Zheng, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Zhu Zhang, Weiguo Fan et al.
      Pages 285-303

  5. Answer Extraction

    1. Question Answering By Predictive Annotation

      • John Prager, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Eric W. Brown, Krzysztof Czuba
      Pages 307-347

    2. Question Answering Supported By Multiple Levels Of Information Extraction

      • Rohini K. Srihari, Wei Li, Xiaoge Li
      Pages 349-382

    3. How To Select An Answer String?

      • Abdessamad Echihabi, Ulf Hermjakob, Eduard Hovy, Daniel Marcu, Eric Melz, Deepak Ravichandran
      Pages 383-406

  6. Evaluating Question Answering Systems

    1. Evaluating Question Answering System Performance

      • Ellen M. Voorhees
      Pages 409-430

    2. Evaluating Interactive Question Answering

      • William Hersh
      Pages 431-455

    3. Habitability In Question-Answering Systems

      • William Ogden, James Mcdonald, Philip Bernick, Roger Chadwick
      Pages 457-473

  7. Perspectives on Question Answering

    1. Question Answering: Technology For Intelligence Analysis

      • Steven J. Maiorano
      Pages 477-504

    2. Reverse-Engineering Question/Answer Collections From Ordinary Text

      • Ellen Riloff, Gideon S. Mann, William Phillips
      Pages 505-531

    3. New Directions In Question Answering

      • Mark Maybury
      Pages 533-558

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 559-568
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About this book

Automated question answering - the ability of a machine to answer questions, simple or complex, posed in ordinary human language - is one of today’s most exciting technological developments. It has all the markings of a disruptive technology, one that is poised to displace the existing search methods and establish new standards for user-centered access to information. This book gives a comprehensive and detailed look at the current approaches to automated question answering. The level of presentation is suitable for newcomers to the field as well as for professionals wishing to study this area and/or to build practical QA systems. The book can serve as a "how-to" handbook for IT practitioners and system developers. It can also be used to teach advanced graduate courses in Computer Science, Information Science and related disciplines. The readers will acquire in-depth practical knowledge of this critical new technology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York at Albany, Albany, USA

    Tomek Strzalkowski

  • University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA

    Sanda M. Harabagiu

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