Answer formulation for question-answering

Abstract

In this paper, we describe our experimentations in evaluating answer formulation for question-answering (QA) systems. In the context of QA, answer formulation can serve two purposes: Improving answer extraction or improving human-computer interaction (HCI). Each purpose has different precision/recall requirements. We present our experiments for both purposes and argue that formulations of better grammatical quality are beneficial for both answer extraction and HCI.