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Question-answering systems: Development and prospects

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A number of problems that are involved in creating question-answering systems are discussed. A review is provided of the systems of this type that are most popular. The typical architecture of a question-answering system includes a question classification module. Different methods for creating this module are examined in the paper.

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Lapshin, 2012, published in Nauchno-Tekhnicheskaya Informatsiya, Seriya 2, 2012, No. 6, pp. 1–9.

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Lapshin, V.A. Question-answering systems: Development and prospects. Autom. Doc. Math. Linguist. 46, 138–145 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0005105512030053

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