Voice-activated question answering

Summary form only given. Text-based Question Answering technology has made significant progress in the last few years. Cellular phones are now shipping with integrated web browsers. It is clear the next step is to integrate voice input and output with Question Answering systems to alleviate the keyword bottleneck of cellular phones. This talk presents some issues specific to designing VAQA systems. It is possible to integrate state-of-the-art question answering and automatic speech recognition in such a way that the performance of the combined system is better than the individual components.