Workshop on Reuse in Question Answering Systems

Leaders: Marc Light and Abraham Ittycheriah

Participants: Nancy McCracken, Andrew Latto

Products:
Browse or download the final briefing developed at the conclusion of the workshop.
View a paper derived from the efforts of this workshop.

Overview:
An advanced Q&A system should be able to accumulate questions, answers, and other auxiliary information. This information could then be "reused" to enable the system to better answer future questions. In this way, a system could duplicate a human’s ability to gain knowledge and proficiency in an area as she or he answers questions. This workshop set out to: (i) Explicate: find questions and answers that captured the ways in which we would want an automated Question Answering system to reuse the answers from earlier questions in responding to later questions (focussing on a small number of domains, e.g., epidemiology, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, etc.). (2) Categorize: find and classify different types of possible reuse. (3) Describe: write short document discussing the categories, their characteristics, and their distributions

If you are interested in obtaining any of the data generated in the course of this workshop, please contact David Day, day@mitre.org.