textmap
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http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/projects/textmap/
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/pub/textmap/
An Intelligent Question-Answering Assistant
TextMap focuses on developing algorithms that automatically mine vast
amounts of data in order to answer questions posed in natural
language.
The systems produced withinTextMap focus on methods and
techniques for answering:
* Factoid questions: What is the capital of Morocco?
* Cause questions: Why is there no cure for the cold?
* Biography questions: What do you know about Dick Cheney?
* Event questions: What do you know about the Kobe earthquake?
TextMap employs a combination of rule-based and supervised and
unsupervised machine learning algorithms that are trained on massive
amounts of data.