Question and answering service is one of the popular services in the World Wide Web. The main goal of these services is to finding the best answer for user's input question as quick as possible. In order to achieve this aim, most of these use new techniques foe question matching. . We have a lot of question and answering services in Persian web, so it seems that developing a question matching m...

We study question-answering over semi-structured data. We introduce a new way to apply the technique of semantic parsing by applying machine learning only to provide annotations that the system infers to be missing; all the other parsing logic is in the form of manually authored rules. In effect, the machine learning is used to provide non-syntactic matches, a step that is ill-suited to manual ...

Soft Matching for Question Answering

In this paper, we introduce the University at Albany’s question answering system, ILQUA. It is developed on the following methods: pattern matching over annotated text, web-proofing and semantic form proofing. These methods are currently used in other QA systems, however, we revised them to work together in our QA system.