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Question Answering System, Approaches and Techniques: A Review

by Ajitkumar M. Pundge, Khillare S.A., C. Namrata Mahender
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 141 - Number 3
Year of Publication: 2016
Authors: Ajitkumar M. Pundge, Khillare S.A., C. Namrata Mahender
10.5120/ijca2016909587

Ajitkumar M. Pundge, Khillare S.A., C. Namrata Mahender . Question Answering System, Approaches and Techniques: A Review. International Journal of Computer Applications. 141, 3 ( May 2016), 34-39. DOI=10.5120/ijca2016909587

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author = { Ajitkumar M. Pundge, Khillare S.A., C. Namrata Mahender },
title = { Question Answering System, Approaches and Techniques: A Review },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { May 2016 },
volume = { 141 },
number = { 3 },
month = { May },
year = { 2016 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 34-39 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume141/number3/24767-2016909587/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2016909587 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%A Ajitkumar M. Pundge
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Abstract

As technology developed the use of internet has tremendously increased because of the availability of huge amount of data. Question answering is a specialized area in the field of information retrieval Text Processing. Question Answering system has many application based on source of answering like extracting information from document, language learning, online examination etc.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Question Answering system Classification Information retrieval Answer extraction.