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The Design and Implementation of Chinese Question and Answering System

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Abstract

Information retrieval has been proven effective in discovering specific passages within large collections of documents in response to a user query. Users frequently obtain brief answers to specific questions instead of obtaining the whole documents. The QA system can process the question statement in Chinese natural language fashion and find out the implicit intention of the user query. This study proposes a Chinese Question Answering system based on HowNet and Autotag. The experiment collected 900 Chinese News items from www.chinatimes.com and presented an excellent MRR (Mean Reciprocal Rate) value at 0.84.

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  1. Institute of Computer and Information Science, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    I.-Heng Meng & Wei-Pang Yang

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  1. I.-Heng Meng
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Army High Performance Computing Research Center, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N1N4, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. Heuchera Technologies Inc., 122 9251-8 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada, L4C 9T3

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

  4. Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationelle, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Pierre L’Ecuyer

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minessota, MN, 55455, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  6. The Queen’s University of Belfast, School of Computer Science, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

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Meng, IH., Yang, WP. (2003). The Design and Implementation of Chinese Question and Answering System. In: Kumar, V., Gavrilova, M.L., Tan, C.J.K., L’Ecuyer, P. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2003. ICCSA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2667. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44839-X_64

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