New Directions in Question Answering 2004

• Mark T. Maybury: Question Answering: An Introduction. 3-18

Foundations and History

• Eric Nyberg, John D. Burger, Scott A. Mardis, David A. Ferrucci: Software Architectures for Advanced QA. 19-30
• Brian Ulicny: Bringing Commercial Question Answering to the Web. 31-46

Definitional, Biographical, and Terminology QA

• Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Kathleen McKeown, Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer: Answering Definitional Questions: A Hybrid Approach. 47-58
• Ralph M. Weischedel, Jinxi Xu, Ana Licuanan: A Hybrid Approach to Answering Biographical Questions. 59-70
• Fabio Rinaldi, Michael Hess, James Dowdall, Diego Mollá Aliod, Rolf Schwitter: Question Answering in Terminology-Rich Technical Domains. 71-86

Multiperspective, Temporal, and Multimedia QA

• Claire Cardie, Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson, Diane J. Litman: Low-Level Annotations and Summary Representations of Opinions for Multiperspective QA. 87-98
• James Pustejovsky, Roser Sauri, José M. Castaño, Dragomir R. Radev, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Andrea Setzer, Beth Sundheim, Graham Katz: Representing Temporal and Event Knowledge for QA Systems. 99-112
• Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Chris Stauffer, W. Eric L. Grimson: Answering Questions About Moving Objects in Videos. 113-128

Interactive and Scenario-Based QA

• Sharon Small, Tomek Strzalkowski, Ting Liu, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Boris Yamrom: A Data Driven Approach to Interactive QA. 129-140
• Anne Diekema, Ozgur Yilmazel, Jiangping Chen, Sarah Harwell, Lan He, Elizabeth D. Liddy: Finding Answers to Complex Questions. 141-152
• Arne Jönsson, Frida Andén, Lars Degerstedt, Annika Flycht-Eriksson, Magnus Merkel, Sara Norberg: Experiences from Combining Dialogue System Development with Information Extraction Techniques. 153-168

Reuse

• Marc Light, Abraham Ittycheriah, Andrew Latto, Nancy J. McCracken: Reuse in Question Answering: A Preliminary Study. 169-182
• Noriko Tomuro, Steven L. Lytinen: Retrieval Models and Q and A Learning with FAQ Files. 183-202

Advanced Methods for Question Processing and Answering

• Daniel Mahler: Holistic Query Expansion Using Graphical Models. 203-214
• Boris Katz, Sue Felshin, Jimmy J. Lin, Gregory Marton: Viewing the Web as a Virtual Database for Question Answering. 215-226
• Harris Wu, Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan: Toward Answer-Focused Summarization Using Search Engines. 227-236
• John M. Prager, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Krzysztof Czuba: A Multi-Agent Approach to Using Redundancy and Reinforcement in Question Answering. 237-252

Knowledge and Inference-Enabled Question Answering

• Richard J. Waldinger, Douglas E. Appelt, Jennifer L. Dungan, John Fry, Jerry R. Hobbs, David J. Israel, Peter Jarvis, David L. Martin, Susanne Riehemann, Mark E. Stickel, Mabry Tyson: Deductive Question Answering from Multiple Resources. 253-262
• Farah Benamara, Patrick Saint-Dizier: Advanced Relaxation for Cooperative Question Answering. 263-274
• Deborah L. McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva: Trusting Answers from Web Applications. 275-286

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