Thursday, 6 August 2009 |
13:50–14:00 |
Welcome Address |
14:00–15:00 |
Invited Talk, Pierre Zweigenbaum
Knowledge and Reasoning for Medical Question-Answering |
14:00–15:00 |
Knowledge and Reasoning for Medical Question-Answering
Pierre Zweigenbaum |
15:00–15:30 |
The Development of a Question-Answering Services System for the Farmer through SMS: Query Analysis
Mukda Suktarachan, Patthrawan Rattanamanee and Asanee Kawtrakul |
15:30–16:00 |
Coffee Break, Level 3, Suntec |
16:00–16:20 |
QAST: Question Answering System for ThaiWikipedia
Wittawat Jitkrittum, Choochart Haruechaiyasak and Thanaruk Theeramunkong |
16:20–16:40 |
Some Challenges in the Design of Comparative and Evaluative Question Answering Systems
Nathalie Lim, Patrick Saint-Dizier and Rachel Roxas |
16:40–17:00 |
Addressing How-to Questions using a Spoken Dialogue System: a Viable Approach?
Silvia Quarteroni and Patrick Saint-Dizier |
17:00–17:30 |
Invited Talk, Manfred Stede
Question Answering: Reasoning, Mining, or Crowdsourcing? |