# QANUS: An Open-source Question-Answering Platform

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00311 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1501.00311/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 1 Jan 2015.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we motivate the need for a publicly available, generic software framework for question-answering (QA) systems. We present an open-source QA framework QANUS which researchers can leverage on to build new QA systems easily and rapidly. The framework implements much of the code that will otherwise have been repeated across different QA systems. To demonstrate the utility and practicality of the framework, we further present a fully functioning factoid QA system QA-SYS built on top of QANUS.