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status: alive and kicking
description:
Current information retrieval systems allow us to locate documents
that might contain the pertinent information, but most of them leave
it to the user to extract the useful information from a ranked
list. However, users want not whole documents but brief answers to
specific questions. Question answering (QA) is meant to be a step
closer to real information retrieval in that it attempts to facilitate
just that.
The Tequesta (Textual question answering) system, is our first attempt
to implement a question answering system.
Like most current QA systems, Tequesta is built on top of a document
retrieval system. Here, we use Flexir a home grown retrieval
system. For more information on Flexir go to the Document Retrieval Project page.
project members:
Christof Monz,
Maarten de Rijke
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