Arabic rhetorical relations extraction for answering "Why" and "How to" questions

Sadek, J; Chakkour, F; Meziane, F

Abstract

In the current study we aim at exploiting discourse structure of Arabic text to automatically finding answers to non-factoid questions (”Why” and ”How to”). Our method is based on Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) that many studies have shown to be a very effective approach for many computational linguistics applications such as (text generation, text summarization and machine translation). For both types of questions we assign one or more rhetorical relations that help discovering the corresponding answers. This is the first Arabic Question Answering system that attempts to answer the “Why” and “How to” questions.

Citation

Sadek, J., Chakkour, F., & Meziane, F. (2012). Arabic rhetorical relations extraction for answering "Why" and "How to" questions. In Natural Language Processing and Information Systems (385-390). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31178-9_52

• Start Date: Jun 26, 2012
• End Date: Jun 28, 2012
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2012
• Deposit Date: Sep 15, 2017
• Pages: 385-390
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Book Title: Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
• ISBN: 9783642311772
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31178-9_52
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31178-9_52
• Related Public URLs: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31178-9
• Additional Information: Additional Information : 17th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2012, Groningen, The Netherlands, June 26-28, 2012. Proceedings; Event Type : Conference