QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
AOL (a competitor to Google) released around 35 million search queries, done by American citizens during 2006, to the public. (See AOL Data Leak).
A fraction of this data (but still a lot of data) was, for different reasons, written as full English sentences. Some of it was questions and some of it fragments, statements etc.
The book is the result of an automatic process of combining answers with questions using word matching. In other words, if a word exists in both the question and the answer, they are paired together.
Example:
Why does one hemisphere have spring at the same time the other hemisphere has autumn?
1. one hemisphere has spring at the same time the other hemisphere has autumn2. many rhythms from africa were transplanted in the western hemisphere during the slave trade.
3. the three major rivers of the western hemisphere
5. left and right hemisphere of the brain
6. the year 1400 in the western hemisphere
The result is a 600 paged book with around 2000 questions answered with 1-20 answers each.
