Question Answering for Dutch using Dependency Relations

The project investigates the use of sophisticated linguistic knowledge and robust natural language processing for Question Answering (QA). In particular, we will investigate how syntactic and semantic dependency relations in the question and potential answer texts can be used to support QA. A demonstrator will be developed in cooperation with publisher Het Spectrum, who owns the rights of several major Dutch encyclopaedias. In addition, we plan to participate in QA evaluation efforts of CLEF and similar conferences.

Project leader: Dr. G. Bouma (RUG)

Project website: http://www.let.rug.nl/~gosse/Imix/