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| on the question answering task look a lot like 0. This paper describes our brute force approach to the question answering task and how we did achieve some success, despite formatting problems with our answer file. This paper also describes how we conducted automatic evaluations using the NIST judgment file on newly proposed answers. A good question says what it is about and constrains the form of the answer. In other words, it specifies the distinguishing context for an answer and partially describes the kind of information that would count as an answer. The question "Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? " specifies that we are talking about someone who wrote a particular document, instead of engaging in some other action with respect to some other document. In addition, the question describes that we are looking for a "who " which must be a person, agency, or institution. The process of finding an existing answer to a question means finding part | |||||||||||||
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