QANUS: An Open-source Question-Answering Platform
This provides a reusable tool for researchers to build QA systems more efficiently, but it is incremental as it focuses on software infrastructure rather than novel algorithmic advances.
The authors tackled the lack of a publicly available, generic software framework for question-answering systems by developing QANUS, an open-source platform that reduces code repetition and enables rapid development of QA systems, as demonstrated with a fully functioning factoid QA system called QA-SYS.
In this paper, we motivate the need for a publicly available, generic software framework for question-answering (QA) systems. We present an open-source QA framework QANUS which researchers can leverage on to build new QA systems easily and rapidly. The framework implements much of the code that will otherwise have been repeated across different QA systems. To demonstrate the utility and practicality of the framework, we further present a fully functioning factoid QA system QA-SYS built on top of QANUS.