Gathering Question Formulation Synthesis Analysis & Answer
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This paper is concerned with the way information access systems support the question answering process. This process includes three stages: question formulation, information gathering, and analysis and synthesis. Standard information access technologies are mainly concerned with the second of these stages, providing little or no support for the last stage. However, the raw information gathered at this point can seldom be used directly as an answer. This paper discusses issues relating to the support of the analysis and synthesis stage, and suggests how information access systems might be extended to better support it. This paper also describes a WWW-based experimental interface that permits the evaluation of alternate ways of supporting this analysis and synthesis stage of the answering process.
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