Asexual organisms are of fascination to biologists because most multicellular organisms have chosen sex in some form or other for reproduction. The interest stems from the clear theoretical advantage of asexual reproduction which results in the transfer of a full complement of genes to an offspring rather than the 50 per cent that results from sexual reproduction. Researchers are keen to determ...

A Question Answering (QA) system allows the user to ask questions in natural language and to obtain one or several answers. If compared with a classical IR engine like Google, what kind of key benefits QA bring to users and how to measure their distinctive performances. This is what we shall attempt here to determine, specially in providing a comparative weak and strong points table of each sys...