... encyclopedia to a question answeringsystem targeting the Japanese Information-Technology Engineers Examination.1 IntroductionReflecting the growth in utilization of the World WideWeb, a number of Web-based ... FDDI, d) token ring In the autumn of 1999, out of 80 questions, the num-ber of the first and second types were 22 and 18, re-spectively.4.3 Implementing a QA systemFor the first type of question, ... similar to the description.For the second type of question, human examineeswould search their knowledge base for the description of each of four candidate terms. Then they wouldchoose the candidate...