com.languagecomputer.api
Interface QAService

All Superinterfaces:

Service

public interface QAService
extends Service

Meta-service that provides end-to-end question answering capability. Uses the various question-answering related services provided by the Session.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Kirk Roberts

See Also:

QuestionProcessingService, DocumentRetrievalService, AnswerExtractionService, AnswerFusionService

Method Summary

List<Answer>

answerQuestion(String question) Returns an ordered list of Answers to the given natural language question.

Methods inherited from interface com.languagecomputer.api.Service

getName, setSession

Method Detail

answerQuestion

List<Answer> answerQuestion(String question)

Returns an ordered list of Answers to the given natural language question.

Parameters:

question - The natural language question to answer.

Returns:

A sorted List of Answers to the given question.