Foundations and TrendsŪ in Information Retrieval
OPEN-DOMAIN QUESTION ANSWERING
by John Prager (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Open-Domain Question Answering is an introduction to the field of Question Answering (QA). It covers the basic principles of QA along with a selection of systems that have exhibited interesting and significant techniques, so it serves more as a tutorial than as an exhaustive survey of the field.
Starting with a brief history of the field, it goes on to describe the architecture of a QA system before analysing in detail some of the specific approaches that have been successfully deployed by academia and industry designing and building such systems.
Open-Domain Question Answering is both a guide for beginners who are embarking on research in this area, and a useful reference for established researchers and practitioners in this field.
Published by Now Publishers and marketed by World Scientific
Contents:
- Introduction
- Overview of Question Answering
- Evaluation
- Specific
Approaches
- User Models and Question Complexity
- Discussion
- Acknowledgements
- References
Readership: Postgraduates and professionals.
| 152pp |
Pub. date: Jul 2007 |
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