DO NOT MOVE SUFFICIENTLY BEYOND THE FACTOIDAPPROACH. THEY ACCOUN...

2004) do not move sufficiently beyond the factoid

approach. They account for two types of non-

Figure 1: High level system architecture

factoid questions –list and definitional– but not for

non-factoid answers. In fact, a) TREC defines list

Related work To our knowledge, our system is

questions as questions requiring multiple factoid

among the first to address the need for a different

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approach to non-factoid (complex/controversial)

4 Question Answering Module

answers. Although the three-tiered structure of

our QA module reflects that of a typical web-

The flow between the three QA phases – question

based QA system, e.g. MULDER (Kwok et al.,

processing, document retrieval and answer gener-