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Building a Foundation System for Producing Short Answers to Factual Questions
2002
Text Retrieval Conference
In this paper we describe question answering research being pursued as a joint project between Columbia University and the University of Colorado at Boulder as part of ARDA's AQUAINT program. As a foundation for targeting complex questions involving opinions, events, and paragraph-length answers, we recently built two systems for answering short factual questions. We submitted results from the two systems to TREC's Q&A track, and the bulk of this paper describes the methods used in building
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