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  <Title>A Rule-based Question Answering System for Reading Comprehension Tests</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have developed a rule-based system, Quarc, that can reada short story and find the sentence in the story that best answers a given question.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Quarc uses heuristic rules that look for lexical and semantic clues in the question and the story.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We have tested Quarc on reading comprehension tests typically given to children in grades 3-6. Overall, Quarc found the correct sentence 40% of the time, which is encouraging given the simplicity of its rules.</Paragraph>
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