Download or read book Advances in Open Domain Question Answering written by Tomek Strzalkowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-07 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Springer volume provides a comprehensive and detailed look at current approaches to automated question answering. The level of presentation is suitable for newcomers to the field as well as for professionals wishing to study this area and/or to build practical QA systems. The book can serve as a "how-to" handbook for IT practitioners and system developers. It can also be used to teach graduate courses in Computer Science, Information Science and related disciplines.