A GEOGRAPHICAL QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM

Ehsan Behrangi, Hamed Ghasemzadeh, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Behrouz Minaei Bidgoli

2007

Abstract

Question Answering systems are one of the hot topics in context of information retrieval. In this paper, we develop an open-domain Question Answering system for spatial queries. We use Google for gathering raw data from the Web and then in a few iterations density of potential answers will be increased, finally based on a couple of evaluators the best answers are selected to be returned to user. Our proposed algorithm uses fuzzy methods to be more precise. Some experiments have been designed in order to evaluate the performance of our algorithm and results are totally promising. We will describe that how this algorithm can be applied to other type of questions as well.

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in Harvard Style

Behrangi E., Ghasemzadeh H., Sheykh Esmaili K. and Minaei Bidgoli B. (2007). A GEOGRAPHICAL QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-78-8, pages 308-314. DOI: 10.5220/0001287203080314


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist07,
author={Ehsan Behrangi and Hamed Ghasemzadeh and Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili and Behrouz Minaei Bidgoli},
title={A GEOGRAPHICAL QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2007},
pages={308-314},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001287203080314},
isbn={978-972-8865-78-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - A GEOGRAPHICAL QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM
SN - 978-972-8865-78-8
AU - Behrangi E.
AU - Ghasemzadeh H.
AU - Sheykh Esmaili K.
AU - Minaei Bidgoli B.
PY - 2007
SP - 308
EP - 314
DO - 10.5220/0001287203080314