iQA: an intelligent question answering system

  • Authors:
  • Zhiguo Gong;Mei Pou Chan

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macao, PRC;Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macao, PRC

  • Venue:
  • ICADL'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Asian Digital Libraries: implementing strategies and sharing experiences
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Question answering (QA) is the study on the methodology that returns exact answers to natural language questions. This paper attempts to increase the coverage and accuracy of QA systems by narrowing the semantics gap between questions with terms written in abbreviations and their potential answers. To achieve this objective, the processing includes (1) identifying terms that might be abbreviations from the user's natural language question; (2) retrieving documents relevant to that abbreviation term; (3) filtering noun phrases that are considered to be potential long forms for that abbreviation within the returned result.