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<Paper uid="W06-1809">
  <Title>Incorporating User Models in Question Answering to Improve Readability</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Most question answering and information retrieval systems are insensitive to different users' needs and preferences, as well as their reading level. In (Quarteroni and Manandhar, 2006), we introduce a hybrid QA-IR system based on a a user model.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In this paper we focus on how the system filters and re-ranks the search engine results for a query according to their reading difficulty, providing user-tailored answers.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Keywords: question answering, information retrieval, user modelling, readability.</Paragraph>
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