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  <Title>An Analysis of the AskMSR Question-Answering System</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We describe the architecture of the AskMSR question answering system and systematically evaluate contributions of different system components to accuracy.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The system differs from most question answering systems in its dependency on data redundancy rather than sophisticated linguistic analyses of either questions or candidate answers. Because a wrong answer is often worse than no answer, we also explore strategies for predicting when the question answering system is likely to give an incorrect answer.</Paragraph>
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