slides: here Venue: WWW 2001 paper link: here Mulder is the 1st general-purpose, fully-automated question answering(QA) system. Instead of indexing any structured corpora, Mulder uses a commercial search engine as its knowledge base. The system has 6 components: Question Parser: it constructs a tree of the question’s phrasal structure and determines the question’s syntactic structure. The results from the question parser are also used in … Continue reading Paper Reading: Scaling Question Answering to the Web