Software developers have heavily used online question-and-answer platforms to seek help
to solve their technical problems. However, a major problem with these technical Q8A sites …

Finding similar questions from historical archives has been applied to question answering,
with well theoretical underpinnings and great practical success. Nevertheless, each …

Various embodiments describe techniques for retrieving query results for natural language
procedural queries. A query answering (QA) system generates a structured semantic …

Modern search engines have made dramatic progress in answering questions about facts,
such as those that might be retrieved or directly inferred from a knowledge base. However …

The field of Question Answering Systems (QAS) is rapidly evolving, and the search for
effective systems has expanded beyond factoid questions to include non-factoid questions …

A broad range of information needs can often be stated as a question. Question Answering
(QA) systems attempt to provide users concise answer (s) to natural language questions …

The non-factoid question answering system (QAS) responds to an input question by fetching
an answer from a question answering (QA) database. The existing non-factoid QASs still …

Open-domain question answering (QA) is an emerging information-seeking paradigm,
which automatically generates accurate and concise answers to natural language questions …

Community question answering system (cQA), one of the fastest-growing user-generated
content (UGC) portals, has raised as an enormous market, so to speak, for the fulfilment of …

Question Answering is a challenging topic and is gaining growing attention in last years
being an interesting interdisciplinary research area and having practical application. In this …