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  <Title>Exploiting Diversity for Answering Questions</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We describe initial experiments in combining the output of question answering systems using data from the 2002 TREC Question Answering task. We explore several distance-based combining methods, as well as a number of distance metrics involving both word and character ngrams.</Paragraph>
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