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  <Title>FERRET: Interactive Question-Answering for Real-World Environments</Title>
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We created FERRET as part of a larger effort designed to address the challenges of integrating automatic question-answering systems into real-world research environments. We have focused on two components that have been implemented into the latest version of FERRET: (1) predictive questioning, which enables systems to provide users with question-answer pairs that may anticipate their information needs, and (2) question decomposition, which serves to break down complex questions into sets of conceptually-simpler questions that Q/A systems can answer successfully.</Paragraph>
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