Hi Wencan and welcome to our community! QA is quite a hot topic. Take a look at the following threads [1, 2].
On 3/14/14, 2:36 AM, wencan luo wrote: > This is Wencan Luo. A third-year PhD student in University of > Pittsburgh. My research interest is Natural Language Processing (NLP). > > I'm interested in the idea <Natural language question answering engine > <http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2014/ideas#h359-22>>. I know it is a > difficult project since a general QA system is really hard. However, it > is a success. It will be another deep QA system like Watson and will > beat Google to some extend. I believe my NLP background, strong > programming skill and my great interest in DBpedia project can make this > project move a further step. > > Luckily, QA is the final project in my NLP course (CS2731 Fall 2011) and > the QA system develop by our team (with other two students) achieved the > best performance among all the 7 teams in that class based a hybrid > model which used different models for different type of questions (why, > who, what, how, when). > > I also noticed that other applicants are also interested in this > project. However, unfortunately, I missed the first Skype chat mentioned > in the mailing list. Is it possible to share the discussion results with > us so that applicants who interested in this project can also benefit > from these discussion. Take a look at this thread [3] and don't worry, "if it's not on the mailing list, it doesn't exist". > > One additional question for this project is that is there any training > data for this problem? (Some data including both the given query and the > corresponding answer?) If so, how big of the data size do you have? @Axel, @Christina and @Elena can give you more details about that. Cheers! [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/dbpedia/mailman/message/32024743/ [2] http://sourceforge.net/p/dbpedia/mailman/message/32026164/ [3] http://sourceforge.net/p/dbpedia/mailman/message/32073626/ > > Thanks. > Hope this inspiring project a success > > -- > Wencan Luo > CS Department- Univ. of Pittsburgh > 210 S. Bouquet Street > 6501 Sennott Square > Pittsburgh, PA 15260 > E-mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> or > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-gsoc mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-gsoc > -- Marco Fossati http://about.me/marco.fossati Twitter: @hjfocs Skype: hell_j ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-gsoc mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-gsoc
