Question Answering (QA) is a specialized area in the field of Information Retrieval (IR). The
QA systems are concerned with providing relevant answers in response to questions …

Factoid question answering is the most widely studied task in question answering. In this
paper, we survey several different techniques to answer extraction for factoid question …

Question answering (QA) systems answer the queries of users efficiently in the least amount
of time. A researcher has to decide which among various methods and techniques available …

Capable of providing an interactive platform for enterprise experts to create and share
empirical knowledge cooperatively, professional virtual communities have arisen from the …

Question classification (QC) is a prime constituent of an automated question answering
system. The work presented here demonstrates that a combination of multiple models …

Question classification plays an important role in cross-language question answering
(CLQA) systems, while question Informer plays a key role in enhancing question …

Abstract In recent years, Question Answering (QA) system has been researched extensively
and automatic question answering has become an interesting research field and resulted in …

Many enterprises collect Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) from their customer service
departments or technical support centers and compile the questions and responses in a …

Question Answering (QA) research has been conducted in many languages. Nearly all the
top performing systems use heavy methods that require sophisticated techniques, such as …

In this paper, we propose an alignment-based surface pattern approach, called ABSP, which
integrates semantic information into syntactic patterns for question answering (QA). ABSP …