Research Roadmap of Question Answering 2003-2006 Planned Desired Shared data, problems, test suites, evaluation at milestones Speed Limit Inference Related Fields: HPKB, TDT, DB, Virtual Ref Desk, User Modeling Productive, Quality QA Speed Limit Robust NLP What If Questions Measurable Progress Composable Toolkit for QA Personalized QA Multimodal Answers 2006 Resource Selection Collaborative QA Requirements Determination Methodolgies for QA Analysis Resource & Evaluation Why Questions Constrained QA (Resource/Solution) Multimodal QA Answer Justification Script/Template Answers Answer Toplogy Crosslingual QA Stereotypical and Indivdualized QA Feasibility Testing Multilingual QA How Questions Question/Answer Typologies Temporal QA Multisessional QA (including change detection) User Typology Task Modeling Empirical Studies QA Reuse Fact Answers Evaluation QA as Planning Wizard of Oz QA Sets Interactive Dialog Factoid Questions Answer Fusion Collect QA Logs Create QA Sets Interoperability Quality Assurance Task Model Public Taxonomies (e.g., OpenDirectory in RDF) Semi-structured Data User Expectations Reuse across sessions 2003 TIMEBANK TIMEML Reusable Test Collection “Perspective BANK“ USC/ISIS Question Typology START, FaqFinder, Ionaut, QANDA Web Services (e.g., Google API) TREC QA trec.nist.gov/data/qa.html Systems (Performance & Eval) Resources (Development, Evaluation) Methods & Algorithms Copyright © 2002 Mark Maybury

Research Roadmap of Question Answering 2003-2006 Related Fields: Speed Limit Future QA Speed Limit Outcome Outcome Outcome 2006 RoadBlock item dependency 2003 item Lane Lane Lane