QUARK: A Question and Answering System using Newspaper Corpus as a Knowledge Source
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We developed a question and answering system QUARK. This system extracts an answer from newspaper corpus as a knowledge source by a statistical technique. We participated in NTCIR3 QAC task to evaluate our system.
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