Web Question Answering: Is More Always Better?  (Make Corrections)  
Susan Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy Lin, Andrew Ng

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Abstract: This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use a wide variety of linguistic resources. We focus instead on the redundancy available in large corpora as an important resource. We use this redundancy to simplify the query rewrites that we need to use, and to support answer mining from returned snippets. Our system performs quite well given the simplicity of the... (Update)

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@misc{ dumais-web,
  author = "Susan Dumais and Michele Banko and Eric Brill and Jimmy Lin and Andrew
    Ng",
  title = "Web Question Answering: Is More Always Better?",
  url = "citeseer.comp.nus.edu.sg/529681.html" }
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