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applied NLP > human-computer interaction > question answering system

Preferred term

question answering system  

Definition

  • The task/process where computer systems try to automatically answer questions posed by users in the form of natural language. (Loterre)

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Synonym(s)

  • answering system
  • QA system
  • question-answering system

Example

  • At the TERQUAS workshop recommendations for the enhancement of question answering systems were developed. (Cavar, Aljubailan, Mompelat, Won, Dickson, Fort, Davis & Kim, 2022)
  • Building accurate knowledge graphs is essential for question answering system. (Choi, Nam, Choi & Choi, 2016)
  • Despite the success for various datasets there is little work analyzing the whole pipeline of question answering systems. (Liu, Lewis, Riedel & Stenetorp, 2022)
  • Existence of good knowledge graphs is essential for question answering system. (Choi, Nam, Choi & Choi, 2016)
  • The performance of the question answering system was measured using Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR). (Novischi & Moldovan, 2006)

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