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MITRE is pursuing a line of research aimed at creating systems that transform users from the traditional web search approach in which the user poses queries and gets (typically an overwhelming amount of purportedly relevant) pages, to one in which the user asks questions and gets answers. As implied by Figure 1, this suggests moving away from a conventional information retrieval strategy of document/web page retrieval to one requiring both multilingual and multimedia information extraction coupled with personalized presentation planning. Figure 1. Ask Questions, Get Answers The inadequacy of the current document retrieval strategy is underscored by Figure 2 that illustrates the (normalized into common units) growth in computing, storage, and high speed networks, suggesting tha