A multilingual SVM-based question classification system

  • Authors:
  • Empar Bisbal;David Tomás;Lidia Moreno;José L. Vicedo;Armando Suárez

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain;Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Alicante, Spain;Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain;Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Alicante, Spain;Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Alicante, Spain

  • Venue:
  • MICAI'05 Proceedings of the 4th Mexican international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Question Classification (QC) is usually the first stage in a Question Answering system. This paper presents a multilingual SVM-based question classification system aiming to be language and domain independent. For this purpose, we use only surface text features. The system has been tested on the TREC QA track questions set obtaining encouraging results.