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  <Title>Generating Intelligent Numerical Answers in a Question-Answering System</Title>
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We proposed a question-answering system which generates intelligent answers to numerical questions. Candidate answers are first extracted from the Web. Generated answers are composed of three parts: (1) a direct answer: the content determination process &amp;quot;chooses&amp;quot; a direct answer among candidates, dealing with data inconsistencies and approximations, (2) an explanation: the content determination process allows to identify, from data sets, the possible value variations and to infer their variation criteria (time, place or restrictions on the question focus), and (3) a possible Web page extract. This work has several future directions among which we plan: - to define precisely in which cases it is useful to propose a Web page extract as a justification and, - to measure the relevance of restrictions on the question focus to avoid generating an enumeration of values corresponding to irrelevant restrictions.</Paragraph>
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