Approaches to Question Answering -- Some Advanced Features Of Cc's Poweranswer -- A Statistical Approach For Open Domain Question Answering -- Coreference In Q & A -- Question Processing -- Questions And Intentions -- Question Answering As Dialogue With Data -- Coping With Alternate Formulations Of Questions And Answers -- Question Answering as Information Retrieval -- Sentence Ranking Using Keywords And Meta-Keywords -- Question Answering By Passage Selection -- Query Modulation For Web-Based Question Answering -- Answer Extraction -- Question Answering By Predictive Annotation -- Question Answering Supported By Multiple Levels Of Information Extraction -- How To Select An Answer String? -- Evaluating Question Answering Systems -- Evaluating Question Answering System Performance -- Evaluating Interactive Question Answering -- Habitability In Question-Answering Systems -- Perspectives on Question Answering -- Question Answering: Technology For Intelligence Analysis -- Reverse-Engineering Question/Answer Collections From Ordinary Text -- New Directions In Question Answering
Summary
Automated question answering - the ability of a machine to answer questions, simple or complex, posed in ordinary human language - is one of the most exciting technological developments. This book looks at the various approaches to automated question answering. It serves as a "how-to" handbook for IT practitioners and system developers
