Just-In-Time Interactive Question Answering (JITIQA)

Language Computer Corporation

Principal Investigator: Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan

OBJECTIVES• Develop dialog management capabilities for QA• Explore Just-in-Time Information Search agents• Enhance Answer Taxonomy• Develop capabilities for processing complex questions • Develop capabilities for mining patterns of QA activity

PLAN• Design and develop Just-In-Time software agents that proactively search and retrieve information based on analyst’s local context and current QA scenario.• Develop a model of answer types that will allow fusion of information from different sources• Develop data mining techniques that capture patterns from QA scenarios and analyze the effect of activity patterns on the overall performance of the QA task

Topic Area: Enabling (Interactive QA)

Data Dimension: Focused (Text)