Question Answering

Bibliography

Zhiping Zheng (UMich): Bibliography in Automated Question Answering
Bonnie Webber, and Johan Bos (U. Edinburgh): Edinburgh Question-Answering Reading Group

People

Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan @ UT-Dallas
Ed Hovy @ ISI/USC
Dragomir Radev @ UMich
Bruce Croft, James Allan, Wei Li @ UMass

Systems

START (MIT):                   http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/infolab/
Webclopedia (ISI/USC):    http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec9/papers/webclopedia.pdf
AnswerBus (UMich):        http://misshoover.si.umich.edu/~zzheng/qa-new/
NSIR (CLIR/UMich):         http://perun.si.umich.edu/clair/home/nsir.htm
AQUAINT/INQUERY (CIIR/UMass):       http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/research/aquaint.htm
                                                                         http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/demonstrations/inqueryrep.ps
PowerAnswer (Language Computer Corp.):        http://www2.languagecomputer.com/demos/question_answering/index.html

Courses

Roberd Dale & Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University): Interactive Natural Language Systems
Günter Neumann, DFKI: Information Extraction and Question-Answering Systems: Foundations and Methods

Slides

John Burger (UMass): Question Answering
CRL/NMSU: Knowledge Based Question Answering
Robert Gaizauskas & Sam Scott (U Sheffield): Is that Your Final Answer? The Role of Confidence in Question Answering Systems
Alison Huettner (ClariTech): Question and Answering
Elizabeth D. Liddy (Syracuse U): When You Want an Answer, Why Settle for A List?
Ryan McCabe, and M. Chase Smith (UMass): Question Answering
Vinay K. Chaudhri (SRI): Question Answering Systems

Resources

List of resources @ Stanford: http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/links/statnlp.html
TREC Home:  http://trec.nist.gov (see http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec8/papers/qa8.pdf )
Web IR&IE: http://192.115.216.71/webir/index.html
Extractor software: http://extractor.iit.nrc.ca/