Qast: Question Answering System for Thaiwikipedia

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Qast: Question Answering System for Thaiwikipedia
Authors
Wittawat Jitkrittum
Choochart Haruechaiyasak
Thanaruk Theeramunkong
Publication date
2009
DOI
10.3115/1697288.1697291
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Qast: Question Answering System for Thaiwikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2009, written by Wittawat Jitkrittum, Choochart Haruechaiyasak and Thanaruk Theeramunkong.

Overview

Authors propose an open-domain question answering system using Thai Wikipedia as the knowledge base. Two types of information are used for answering a question: (1) structured information extracted and stored in the form of Resource Description Framework (RDF), and (2) unstructured texts stored as a search index. For the structured information, SPARQL transformed query is applied to retrieve a short answer from the RDF base. For the unstructured information, keyword-based query is used to retrieve the shortest text span containing the questions's key terms. From the experimental results, the system which integrates both approaches could achieve an average MRR of 0.47 based on 215 test questions.

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Jitkrittum, Wittawat; Haruechaiyasak, Choochart; Theeramunkong, Thanaruk. (2009). "[[Qast: Question Answering System for Thaiwikipedia]]". Association for Computational Linguistics. DOI: 10.3115/1697288.1697291.

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{{cite journal |last1=Jitkrittum |first1=Wittawat |last2=Haruechaiyasak |first2=Choochart |last3=Theeramunkong |first3=Thanaruk |title=Qast: Question Answering System for Thaiwikipedia |date=2009 |doi=10.3115/1697288.1697291 |url=https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Qast:_Question_Answering_System_for_Thaiwikipedia |journal=Association for Computational Linguistics}}

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Jitkrittum, Wittawat; Haruechaiyasak, Choochart; Theeramunkong, Thanaruk. (2009). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Qast:_Question_Answering_System_for_Thaiwikipedia">Qast: Question Answering System for Thaiwikipedia</a>&quot;. Association for Computational Linguistics. DOI: 10.3115/1697288.1697291.