Question Answering for Dutch Using Dependency Relations

We describe Joost, our QA system for Dutch, which makes extensive use of dependency relations. We analyzed the full Dutch CLEF QA corpus syntactically and mined it off-line for information that may be useful for QA. Joost answers questions either by table look-up, or by searching for answers in paragraphs returned by an IR engine. In both cases, dependency relations are used to identify and rank potential answers.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Gosse Bouma, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann
• Keywords: CLEF 2005, Dependency Relations, Dutch CLEF QA, Joost Answers Questions