Question Answering for Dutch using Dependency
Relations
This project investigates the use of
sophisticated linguistic knowledge and robust natural language processing
for QA. In particular, we will investigate how syntactic and semantic dependency
relations in the question and potential answer texts can be used to support
QA. A demonstrator will be developed in cooperation with publisher Het
Spectrum, who owns the rights of several major Dutch encyclopedias. In
addition, we plan to participate in QA evaluation efforts of CLEF and similar
conferences.
The project is funded by NWO, as part of the IMIX
programme (Interactive Multimodal Information eXtraction), and the Faculty
of Arts of the University of Groningen.
Other IMIX projecs: Rolaquad, ,
Norisc I, Norisc II,
Imogen,
Factmine, Vidiam,
Paradime.
Gosse Bouma, Ismail Fahmi, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke van der Plas, and Jörg Tiedemann,
Linguistic Knowledge and Question Answering, To appear in Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL), 2005/3