... Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked Michael Fleischman, Eduard Hovy, Abdessamad Echihabi USC Information Sciences Institute ... relational information offline, creating a data repository that is used to efficiently answer questions. We evaluate our strategy on a challenging subset of questions, i.e. “Who is …” questions, ... complete repository of useful information. Most newspaper texts, for example, do not remain accessible on the Web for more than a few weeks. Further, while Information Retrieval techniques...