All questions are implicitly associated with an expected answer type. Unlike previous approaches that require a predefined set of question types, we present a method for dynamical...
There has recently been a significant increase in the number of community-based question and answer services on the Web where people answer other peoples’ questions. These serv...
Problems of secure communication and computation have been studied extensively in network models. Goldreich, Goldwasser, and Linial, Franklin and Yung, and Franklin and Wright have...
The Web has emerged as a huge information repository that can be used for various knowledge based applications, an important one being Question Answering (QA). The paper discusses...
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 ar...