Question Answering Act

A Question Answering Act is a conversational act of a question answering task (that presents a question to an intelligent agent with the expectation of an answer).

• Example(s):
  • The last question asked during the 2011_IBM-sponsored Jeopardy Contest.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Document Summarization Act (of document summarization).
• See: Linguistic Agent.

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