Finding answers for complex questions

该项目旨在为在线搜索引擎开发一种新的搜索范例，为用户提供复杂问题的答案，而不是强迫他们自己从检索文档列表中寻找答案。该项目将开发复杂答案搜索任务的分类，设计新的技术，通过交互提高复杂答案检索的有效性，并创建一个新的评估框架，以精确测量系统的有效性。这个项目应该提供显著的进步，将有利于搜索引擎的所有用户。

This project aims to develop a new search paradigm for on-line search engines that presents users with answers to complex questions, rather than forcing them to find answers themselves from lists of retrieved documents. The project will develop a taxonomy of complex answer search tasks, devise novel techniques to increase the effectiveness of complex answer retrieval through interaction and, create a new evaluation framework for precise measurement of system effectiveness. This project should provide significant advances that will benefit all users of search engines.