Project Summary
The FAQFinder project is a joint project between Northwestern University,
The University of California at Irvine,
and DePaul University. FAQFinder is an automated question-answering system
that uses the
files of ``Frequently-Asked Questions'' (FAQs) associated with many
USENET newsgroups. These files are compendiums of the accumulated
wisdom of the newsgroup on topics that are of frequent interest.
FAQFinder will take a user's query on any topic, attempts to find the
FAQ file most likely to yield an answer, searches within that file for
similar questions, and returns the given answers.