Question Analysis and Answer Passage Retrieval for Opinion Question Answering Systems

Lun-Wei Ku ； Yu-Ting Liang ； Hsin-Hsi Chen

《中文計算語言學期刊》 13卷3期 (2008/09) Pp. 307-325

https://doi.org/10.30019/IJCLCLP.200809.0003

並列摘要

Question answering systems provide an elegant way for people to access an underlying knowledge base. However, people are interested in not only factual questions, but also opinions. This paper deals with question analysis and answer passage retrieval in opinion QA systems. For question analysis, six opinion question types are defined. A two-layered framework utilizing two question type classifiers is proposed. Algorithms for these two classifiers are described. The performance achieves 87.8% in general question classification and 92.5% in opinion question classification. The question focus is detected to form a query for the information retrieval system and the question polarity is detected to retain relevant sentences which have the same polarity as the question. For answer passage retrieval, three components are introduced. Relevant sentences retrieved are further identified as to whether the focus (Focus Detection) is in a scope of opinion (Opinion Scope Identification) or not, and, if yes, whether the polarity of the scope and the polarity of the question (Polarity Detection) match with each other. The best model achieves an F-measure of 40.59% by adopting partial match for relevance detection at the level of meaningful unit. With relevance issues removed, the F-measure of the best model boosts up to 84.96%.

並列關鍵字

Opinion Extraction ； Question Answering ； Question Type ； Answer Passage Retrieval

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