Mining Web Snippets to Answer List Questions

This paper presents ListWebQA, a question answering system that is aimed specifically at extracting answers to list questions exclusively from web snippets. Answers are identified in web snippets by means of their semantic and syntactic similarities. Initial results show that they are a promising source of answers to list questions.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: AUSDM
• Authors: Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann
• Keywords: AUSDM 2007, Data Mining, Paper Presents Listwebqa, Question Answering, Web Snippets