Reuse in Question Answering: A Preliminary Study

People when asked a number of questions about a particular topic begin to become knowledgeable about the topic as they look for and find answers to the questions. A question answering system should also possess this ability to "reuse" information used in answering previous questions. This article defines and exemplifies a dozen categories of reuse that were found in usergenerated question sets. The corpus of question sets is also discussed.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: NDQA
• Authors: Marc Light, Abraham Ittycheriah, Andrew Latto, Nancy J. McCracken
• Keywords: Education, NDQA 2004, Question Answering, Question Sets, Usergenerated Question Sets