Juliano Cícero Bitu Rabelo, Flávia A. Barros.
This paper presents Pergunte!, an original QA system to the Portuguese language which uses the Web as database. Pergunte! uses text patterns to locate answers on the documents returned by search engines. The implemented prototype showed very good results on preliminary tests.
http://www.lbd.dcc.ufmg.br/colecoes/enia/2005/094.pdf
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