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More and more people resort to the web for searching and sharing information about their health using search engines and forums. These tools have many drawbacks such as: the lack of concise answers, difficulties of presentation of the complex needs of information…In this paper, we look at a new way of delivering information to the users via coherent conversations. After completing a comparative study on recent question answering (QA) systems, the major motivation is to find a solution to address their weaknesses. The solution that we propose is a QA system which takes into account the context of research and allows interaction with the user to understand its purpose, by using different types of data sources.
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Jebbor, F., Benhlima, L. (2016). Towards a Conversational Question Answering System. In: El Oualkadi, A., Choubani, F., El Moussati, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on Information & Communication Technologies 2015. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 380. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30301-7_32
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