Question Answer(web-QA + KB-QA + social-QA) research in the world

qa(web-QA + KB-QA + social-QA) in the world:
qa in cmu language technology institute:
http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/work 
-> http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/work/category/2714
-> http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/projects/information-extraction-summarization-and-question-answering/javelin-open-domain-question


qa in ibm watson deepqa(based on ml):
http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/research-team/algorithms.html
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa11/tech/slides/perrone.pdf
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nbach/papers/Watson-vs-SMT.pdf


qa in ibm watson(based on deep learning)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04108
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-zhou
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-bingxia


qa in berkeley&stanford
http://www.semanticmachines.com/


qa in microsoft:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/natural-language-computing/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/nanduan/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/fuwei/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/jfgao/


qa in google brain/nlu/neural conversation modeling:
https://research.google.com/teams/brain/natural-language/
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.05869v3.pdf


qa in google nlu/google assitant:
https://research.google.com/teams/nlu/


qa in facebook:
https://research.fb.com/category/natural-language-processing-and-speech/
https://research.fb.com/category/facebook-ai-research-fair/


qa in allenai:
http://allenai.org/aristo/


qa in china
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhifei-li-96491b8/
http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/cip/cqzongAcademicActivities.htm
http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/cip/~liukang/index.html
http://kw.fudan.edu.cn/ddemos/qa/
http://www.icst.pku.edu.cn/lcwm/course/sckr2017/?page_id=28
http://www.cipsc.org.cn/sigkg/?p=60
http://www.cipsc.org.cn/qngw/?page_id=62
http://www.hangli-hl.com/recent-publications.html


first web-qa:
http://start.csail.mit.edu/index.php


trec 2015 liveqa track winner:
http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec24/papers/oaqa-QA.pdf


trec 2016 liveqa track winner:
http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec25/papers/EmoryIrLab-QA.pdf


qa in dfki(ml based qa):
http://www.dfki.de/~neumann/projects.html
http://www.dfki.de/~neumann/ML4QAseminar2016/index.htm
http://qallme.fbk.eu/index.php?location=partners
http://quetal.dfki.de/people.html
http://www.dfki.de/~feiyu/
http://www.dfki.de/~hansu/


qa in japan(TODAI ROBOT):
http://21robot.org/research_activities/


qa in quora:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhildandekar/
https://www.quora.com/How-does-Quora-use-machine-learning-in-2017


university & company:
stanford & fb/ms/g
cmu/mit/umass & ibm
washington & allenai
saarland & dfki
pku/tsinghua/fudan & ms