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This website aggregates information about a special topic: Question-Answering (QA).  
 
This website aggregates information about a special topic: Question-Answering (QA).  
In a ''small'' sentence, QA is the task which, given a question phrased in Natural Language, returns its exact answer by searching within text collections of large dimensions.
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In a rather small sentence, the QA task aims to return an actual answer to a natural language question.
  
 
Here, you can discover what we have been doing concerning Question-Answering, specially the [[QA systems|systems]] we have built. We ''plan'' to keep it updated with interesting [[publications|publications]], [[resources|resources]] and [[software|software]] for QA, among others.
 
Here, you can discover what we have been doing concerning Question-Answering, specially the [[QA systems|systems]] we have built. We ''plan'' to keep it updated with interesting [[publications|publications]], [[resources|resources]] and [[software|software]] for QA, among others.

Revision as of 14:49, 11 November 2009

Greetings stranger!

You have just entered L2F's wiki about Question-Answering!

Be welcome!

What?

This website aggregates information about a special topic: Question-Answering (QA). In a rather small sentence, the QA task aims to return an actual answer to a natural language question.

Here, you can discover what we have been doing concerning Question-Answering, specially the systems we have built. We plan to keep it updated with interesting publications, resources and software for QA, among others.

Who?

We are a group of people interested in QA. See who we are.

Where?

Our research activity is settled in INESC-ID Lisboa, and we belong to the Spoken Language Systems Laboratory. Check out the group and its activities here.

When?

We are actively working on QA since 2006. Who knows till when...

Why?

Oh well... because it's funny and interesting!