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  <Title>Factoid Question Answering with Web, Mobile and Speech Interfaces</Title>
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6 Conclusion and Further work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Having recapped a basic overview of our statistical approach to question answering (QA), in this paper we have described the web and mobile-phone interfaces to our multi-language QA system and how they can be accessed. In addition, we have described our first attempt at a prototype speech interface which will be used as a platform for future research. Eventually our aim is to make the QA performance of the speech interface the same as that obtained through the web and mobile-phone interfaces. This will be achieved through a combination of acoustic, language and dialog model adaptation on the speech side, and making the QA system more robust to underspecified and errorful questions on the QA side. We think these demonstration systems show significant progress has already been made and  give a hint of how information access to QA systems might be achieved in the near future.</Paragraph>
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