1.1 QUESTION ANALYSIS ANSWER PARAGRAPH ORDERING QUESTION ANALYSIS...

2.1.1 Question Analysis

Answer Paragraph Ordering Question analysis is also referred to as “Question Focus”. Answer. Unfortunately, classifying the question and knowing its type Identification is not enough for finding answers to all questions. The “what” questions in particular can be quite ambiguous in terms of the Answer Extraction information asked by the question [7]. In order to address this ambiguity, an additional component which analyzes the Answer Validation question and identifies its focus is necessary. The focus of a question has been defined by Moldovan et al. [8] to be a word or sequence of words which indicate what Figure 1: Question Answering System Architecture information is being asked for in the question. For instance, Typically, the following scenario occurs in the QA system: the question “What is the longest river in New South Wales?” has the focus “longest river”. If both the question type (from