An Arabic question-answering system for factoid questions

Author

Brini, Wissal ; Ellouze, Mariem ; Mesfar, Slim ; Belguith, Lamia Hadrich

Author_Institution

LARIS, Univ. of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

fYear

2009

fDate

24-27 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an Arabic Question-Answering (Q-A) system called QASAL (Question-Answering system for Arabic Language). QASAL accepts as an input a natural language question written in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and generates as an output the most efficient and appropriate answer. The proposed system is composed of three modules: A question analysis module, a passage retrieval module and an answer extraction module. To process these three modules we use the NooJ Platform which represents a linguistic development environment.

Keywords

natural language processing; search engines; NooJ platform; QASAL system; Question-Answering system for Arabic Language; answer extraction module; factoid questions; modern standard Arabic; natural language question; passage retrieval module; question analysis module; Character generation; Data mining; Information retrieval; Intersymbol interference; Knowledge engineering; Natural language processing; Natural languages; Performance analysis; Search engines; Web pages; Arabic language; Natural language processing; Question-Answering system; factoid questions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, 2009. NLP-KE 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4538-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4540-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NLPKE.2009.5313730

Filename

5313730