Question Answering: Fundamentals and Applications

Within the realms of information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP), the topic of computer science known as question answering (QA) focuses on the construction of systems that can automatically respond to questions that are submitted by humans in a natural language. The questions can be asked in any natural language.

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Question answering

Chapter 2: Computational linguistics

Chapter 3: Natural language processing

Chapter 4: Natural-language understanding

Chapter 5: Text Retrieval Conference

Chapter 6: Statistical semantics

Chapter 7: Natural-language user interface

Chapter 8: Textual entailment

Chapter 9: Entity linking

Chapter 10: Semantic parsing

(II) Answering the public top questions about question answering.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of question answering in many fields.

(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of question answering' technologies.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of question answering.