Advances in Open Domain Question Answering
Editors: Strzalkowski, Tomek, Harabagiu, Sanda (Eds.)
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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.
- Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Some Advanced Features Of Cc's Poweranswer
Pages 3-34
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A Statistical Approach For Open Domain Question Answering
Pages 35-69
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Coreference In Q&A
Pages 71-96
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Questions And Intentions
Pages 99-147
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Question Answering As Dialogue With Data
Pages 149-188
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Advances in Open Domain Question Answering
- Editors
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- Tomek Strzalkowski
- Sanda Harabagiu
- Series Title
- Text, Speech and Language Technology
- Series Volume
- 32
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-4746-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4020-4746-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-4744-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-4745-9
- Series ISSN
- 1386-291X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVI, 568
- Topics
