| Title: | Determining the Plausibility of Answers to Questions |
| Authors: | Troy Smith, Thomas M. Repede, and Steven L. Lytinen |
| Abstract: | This paper describes AnswerOK, a system which determines whether the answer to a question is plausible. While not a question-answering system itself, it could be used by question-answering systems to check the plausibility of possible answers found in a large corpus (i.e., the TREC Q/A task). We explain the strategies used by AnswerOK, and present results which suggest that AnswerOK would likely improve the performance of many TREC Q/A systems. |
| Full Paper: | [postscript] |