1 QUESTION PROCESSING MODULE QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS AND THE...

2.1 Question Processing Module

question answering systems and the usual sense of text Given a natural language question as input, the overall retrieval systems. Answer extraction technology becomes an function of the question processing module is to analyze and influential and decisive factor on question answering system process the question by creating some representation of the for the final results. Therefore, the answer extraction information requested. Therefore, the question processing technology is deemed to be a module in the question module is required to: answering system [5].  Analyze the question, in order to represent the main information that is required to answer the user’s question. Question Processing  Classify the question type, usually based on taxonomy of possible questions already coded into the system, which Question Analysis in turn leads to the expected answer type, through some shallow semantic processing of the question. Question  Reformulate the question, in order to enhance the Classification question phrasing and to transform the question into Document Processing Question? queries for the information retrieval (search engine). These steps allow the question processing module to finally Reformulation Information pass a set of query terms to the document processing module, WWW Retrieval which uses them to perform the information retrieval. Paragraph Filtering Answer Processing