Ripple Down Rules for Question Analysis

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Literature review

2.1 Question analysis in question answering systems

2.1.1 Question classification

2.1.2 Pattern-matching based analysis

2.1.3 Syntactic-based analysis

2.1.4 Semantic-based analysis

2.1.5 Annotation-based question analysis in question answering systems

2.2 GATE

2.2.1 Information Extraction in GATE

2.2.2 JAPE

2.3 Single Classification Ripple Down Rules

Chapter 3 Our Question Answering System Architecture

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Preprocessing module

3.3 Syntactic analysis module

3.3.1 Noun phrases detection

3.3.2 Question-phrases detection

3.3.3 Relations detection

3.4 Semantic analysis module

3.5 Answer retrieval component

Chapter 4 Systematic Knowledge Acquisition for Question Analysis

4.1 Recall Intermediate Representation of an input question

4.2 Rule language

4.3 Knowledge Acquisition Process

Chapter 5 Evaluation

5.1 Question Analysis for Vietnamese

5.2 Question Analysis for English

Chapter 6 Conclusion

Appendix A Definitions of question-class types

Appendix B Definitions of question-structures

Appendix C Intermediate Representation Elements of English questions

Appendix D Embedding Java code in JAPE

Bibliography