Flexible Question Answering System for mobile devices

This paper presents a flexible question answering system (FQAS) for mobile wireless devices. FQAS comprises a fuzzy logic-based information retrieval (IR) system together with a question answering system that employs information extraction techniques and passage retrieval mechanisms. The IR system includes techniques such as fuzzy term mining and concept clustering. The information extraction module recognizes and extracts relevant information from tables embedded in Web pages at specialized Web sites. The passage retrieval system determines the passage in a document collection that most likely contains the answer to a question. Our current prototype is capable of answering queries and questions within the chosen football (soccer) test domain.