Automated Question Answering in Webclopedia – A Demonstration

In this demonstration we present Webclopedia, a semantics-based question answering system accessible via the web (Hovy et al. 2002, 2001, 2000). Through a live interface (Figure 1), users can type in their questions or select a predefined question. The system returns its top 5 candidate answers, drawn from NIST’s TREC corpus, a collection of 1 million newspaper texts.