Question Answering: Fundamentals and Applications
About this audiobook
What Is Question Answering
Within the realms of information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP), the topic of computer science known as question answering (QA) focuses on the construction of systems that can automatically respond to questions that are submitted by humans in a natural language. The questions can be asked in any natural language.
How You Will Benefit
(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:
Chapter 1: Question answering
Chapter 2: Computational linguistics
Chapter 3: Natural language processing
Chapter 4: Natural-language understanding
Chapter 5: Text Retrieval Conference
Chapter 6: Statistical semantics
Chapter 7: Natural-language user interface
Chapter 8: Textual entailment
Chapter 9: Entity linking
Chapter 10: Semantic parsing
(II) Answering the public top questions about question answering.
(III) Real world examples for the usage of question answering in many fields.
(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of question answering' technologies.
Who This Book Is For
Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of question answering.
About the author
Fouad Sabry is the former Regional Head of Business Development for Applications at HP in Southern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (SEMEA). Fouad has received his B.Sc. of Computer Systems and Automatic Control in 1996, dual masterâs degrees from University of Melbourne (UoM) in Australia, Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 2008, and Master of Management in Information Technology (MMIT) in 2010.
Fouad has more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology and Telecommunications fields, working in local, regional, and international companies, such as Vodafone and IBM in Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. Fouad joined HP Middle East (ME), based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2013 and helped develop the software business in tens of markets across Southern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (SEMEA) regions. Currently, Fouad is an entrepreneur, author, futurist, focused on Emerging Technologies, and Industry Solutions, and founder of One Billion Knowledgeable (1BK) Initiative.
