CASTALIA: Architecture of a Fuzzy Metasearch Engine for Question Answering Systems

The goal of this paper is to present the architecture of a metasearch engine called Castalia, still under development, which includes several underlying Q&A systems. Usually metasearch engines manage typical search engines like Google or Yahoo, but in this case the encapsulation of Q&A systems proposes new challenges that can be modeled by fuzzy logic apart from the other existing challenges such as the fuzzy modeling of temporal or causal questions.

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