1 NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSISAND DOMAIN PORTABILITY IS THE QUESTION AN...

3.1 Natural language analysis

and domain portability is the question analy-

The natural language analyzer in K-QARD iden-

sis because it naturally requires many domain-

dependent resources and has responsibility to

tifies morphemes, tags part-of-speeches to them,

solve the problem caused by various ways of ex-

and analyzes dependency relations between the

morphemes. A stochastic part-of-speech tagger

pressing a question. In K-QARD, a question is an-

and dependency parser(Chung and Rim, 2004) for

alyzed using the methods devised by the informa-

the Korean language are trained on a general do-

tion extraction approach. This IE-based question

main corpus and are used for the analyzer. Then,

analysis method consists of several steps:

several domain-specific named entities, such as a