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Mining Web Snippets to Answer List Questions Alejandro Figueroa Gu¨nter Neumann Deutsches Forschungszentrum fu¨r Ku¨nstliche Intelligenz - DFKI, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D - 66123, Saarbru¨cken, Germany Email: {figueroa|neumann}@dfki.de Abstract This paper presents ListWebQA, a question answering system that is aimed speci?cally at extracting answers to list questions exclusively from web snippets. Answers are identi?ed in web snippets by means of their semantic and syntactic similarities. Initial results show that they are a promising source of answers to list questions. Keywords: Web Mining, Qu