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= Conversational Aqqu  (project and/or thesis) =

== Type ==
Project and/or thesis, preferably with the thesis building on a project. You will be working with a relatively large existing codebase making for a very
real-world like project.

== Background info ==
Our Question Answering (QA) system Aqqu available [[http://aqqu.informatik.uni-freiburg,de|online]] as well as via [[https://telegram.me/AqquBot?startgroup=true|Telegram]] currently
treats every question as self-contained and isolated. 

Especially on a conversation based interface like Telegram this feels quite unnatural, for example instead of being able to have the following conversation:

'''User''': Where was Albert Einstein born?

'''AqquBot''': Albert Einstein, place of birth: Ulm

'''User''': And where did he die?

'''AqquBot''': Albert Einstein, place of death: Princeton

The second question has to repeat the name to work e.g. asking "And where did Albert Einstein die?"