<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<Paper uid="W06-1909">
  <Title>Adapting a Semantic Question Answering System to the Web</Title>
  <Section position="2" start_page="0" end_page="0" type="intro">
    <SectionTitle>
1 Introduction
</SectionTitle>
    <Paragraph position="0"> There are question answering (QA) systems intended for small-sized document collections (textual QA systems) and QA systems aiming at the web (web(-based) QA systems). In this paper, a system of the former type (InSicht, see (Hartrumpf, 2005b)) is transformed into one of the latter type (called InSicht-W3 for short). In Sect. 2, the textual QA system for German is presented. The extensions and modifications required to get it working with the web as a virtual document collection are described and discussed in Sect. 3. The resulting system is evaluated on a well-known test collection and compared to the basic QA system (Sect. 4). After the conclusion, some directions for further research are indicated.</Paragraph>
  </Section>
class="xml-element"></Paper>