... informationextraction of our QA system. The NER moduleis based on a combination of user defined rules based on Lesk word disambiguation (Lesk, 1988),WordNet (Miller, 1995) lookups, and many user-defined ... variation of Collins rules,hypernym extraction via Lesk word disambigua-tion (Lesk, 1988), regular expressions for wh- word indicators, n-grams, word- shapes(capitals),etc. Extracted question-type ... jointlyas NUM:Count. The QC model is trained via sup-port vector machines (SVM) (Vapnik, 1995) con-sidering different features such as semantic head- word feature based on variation of Collins...