Automatic Question Answering: Beyond the Factoid

In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. We focus on FAQlike questions and answers, and build our system around a noisy-channel architecture which exploits both a language model for answers and a transformation model for answer/question terms, trained on a corpus of 1 million question/answer pairs collected from the Web.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: NAACL
• Authors: Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
• Keywords: Factoid Questions, NAACL 2004, NAACL 2007, Question Answering, Question/answer Pairs