Question Answering System QUARK
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چکیده
Recently, we can acquire immence amount of information thanks to the spread of a computer and internet. Therefore, technology for finding the information that a user desires becomes more and more important. A question answering (QA) system answers a question written by natural language in contrast to conventional information retrieval systems where a user expresses his information need by keywords. Therefore, a QA system can provide more user-friendly information access environment to a user. We developed a QA system QUARK1 that finds answer words from large newspaper article corpora and was evaluated by participating in NTCIR4 QAC2, an evaluation workshop of Japanese QA sytems.
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