DocumentCode :
3317142
Title :
A new Web-service-based architecture for question answering
Author :
Chen, Zhe ; Wen, Punwei
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Central South Univ., Changsha, China
fYear :
2005
fDate :
30 Oct.-1 Nov. 2005
Firstpage :
179
Lastpage :
183
Abstract :
A natural language dialogue system is composed of many parts: natural language process, dialogue management, data query, etc. Adding a new service function to traditional complex dialogue systems, which is based on a mixed initiative paradigm, for example question answering (QA) service for e-commerce Web site, requires in general a big effort for redesigning dialogue management modules and other important modules. The new architecture suggested in this paper is based on registration of Web services, and all the services are distributed on agents. It can balance between overall dialogue management and particular agent service. The new services to be added in the system need only register as agents with a central managing server. That makes application of complex QA system much easier for Web site service application compared to traditional architecture. We discuss the advantages brought by the new architecture, including more extensibility, more effective, platform insensitivity, wider adaptability etc., and describe in detail how to implement the system modules.
Keywords :
Internet; electronic commerce; information retrieval; natural language interfaces; software agents; Web services; dialogue management modules; e-commerce Web site; natural language dialogue system; question answering service; Data engineering; Electronic commerce; Engineering management; Information science; Moon; Natural language processing; Natural languages; Quality management; Service oriented architecture; Web services;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, 2005. IEEE NLP-KE '05. Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9361-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/NLPKE.2005.1598730
Filename :
1598730
Link To Document :
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