QUAC currently answers only factoid questions, i.e. questions that expect a "who, what, where, when" type answer, because the only QA backend is Aranea. When accessing google, it is really quite slow so for this presentation I've just recorded the output of a query. Aranea uses its own interface to Google instead of the standard CPAN ones. I should adapt it but can't because I don't have an old google api license key. If anyone can present me with one that would be nice!
./quac --mods Aranea -s Glimpse -q "Who died?" andrewdo@al:/var/lib/myfrdcsa/codebases/internal/quac$ quac -q "Who was the King of Ireland?" -s Glimpse --mods Aranea Initializing sources... Initializing QUAC/Source/Glimpse.pm... Starting ModManager... Starting at entry 0, attempting to grab 100 Searching sources... Searching Glimpse... Searching source: Glimpse Got 72 hits. QUACSources reports 72 results to this query Sucessfully grabbed 5. In total, 5 have been retrieved. 1 Q0 DOC 1 3 ARANEA ENGLAND [3.0, ENGLAND]