Question answering

AskDragon: A redundancy-based factoid question answering system with lightweight local context analysis

We introduce our QA system AskDragon which employs a novel lightweight local context analysis technique to handling two broad classes of factoid questions, entity and numeric questions. The local context analysis module dramatically improves the …

Utilizing Semantic, Syntactic, and Question category Information for Automated Digital Reference Services

Digital reference services normally rely on human experts to provide quality answers to the user requests via online communication tools. As the services gain more popularity, more experts are needed to keep up with a growing demand. Alternatively, …