This is great. Comparable to www.powerset.com (though much slower). I suggest you also index Freebase the structured version of Wikipedia.
J.D. On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:30 AM, mik07 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Apologies if you consider this as spam] > > Hello Lucene users and developers, > > I wanted to point people on this list to a Question Answering System, > developed at the University of Edinburgh, which uses Lucene to index > Wikipedia. I though some of you might be interested in this particular use > of Lucene. Since a few month we have an online demo. It can be found here: > > > http://demos.inf.ed.ac.uk:8080/qualim/search?text=true&query=How+many+Munros+are+there+in+Scotland%3F > > A *DRAFT* of a short paper describing a few of the features can be found > here: > > http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0570760/publications/Kaisser_ACL_2008_Demo.pdf > > I would be glad if you could take a look and I also appreciate any > comments! > > Best Regards, > Michael > > PS: We use quite a few other tools beside Lucene in this demo. Initially we > find answers be querying major search engines (Yahoo and Google) and use > parsers (LinkParser and MiniPar) to post process their result. We employ a > Named Entity Recognition System (GATE's ANNIE) to look for promising answer > strings. Finally, Lucene is used for Wikipedia paragraph retrieval. > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Online-Question-Answering-demo-using-Lucene-tp17232494p17232494.html > Sent from the Lucene - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
