Issues, Tasks and Program Structures to Roadmap Research in Question & Answering (Q&A)

  • John Burger ,
  • Claire Cardie ,
  • Vinay Chaudhri ,
  • Robert Gaizauskas ,
  • Sanda Harabagiu ,
  • David Israel ,
  • Christian Jacquemin ,
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  • Steve Maiorano ,
  • George Miller ,
  • Dan Moldovan ,
  • Bill Ogden ,
  • John Prager ,
  • Ellen Riloff ,
  • Amit Singhal ,
  • Rohini Shrihari ,
  • Tomek Strazalkowski ,
  • Ellen Voorhees ,
  • Ralph Weishedel

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Recently the Vision Statement to Guide Research in Question Answering (Q&A) and Text Summarization outlined a deliberately ambitious vision for research in Q&A. This vision is a challenge to the Roadmap Committee to define the program structures capable of addressing the question processing and answer extraction subtasks and combine them in increasingly sophisticated ways, such that the vision for research is made possible. The Vision Statement indicates a broad spectrum of questioners and a range of answers.