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Actions, answers, and uncertainty: A decision-making perspective on web-based question answering

Azari et al., 2004

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6827439409181122837
Author
Azari D
Horvitz E
Dumais S
Brill E
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Information processing & management

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We present research on methods for generating answers to freely posed questions, based upon information drawn from the Web. The methods exploit the typical redundancy of information on the Web by making multiple queries to search engines and then combining …
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