Developing a Question Answering System

Abstract

The paper presents a question-answering system created in the project „Research in the field of Information Retrieval for question answering system creation”. The system consists of question analysis and answer retrieval and extraction module. At the first stage the system is working on the basis of documents provided by IDSI (Institutul de Dezvoltare a Societăţii Informaţionale - Information Society Development Institute). The system is available online in order to collect questions from different users and to improve it by using collected information.