Question Answering (Wintersemester 2011/2012)

Dozent: Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann (Information Systems)
Website zum Kurs: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/naumann/teaching/ws_1112/question_answering.html

Allgemeine Information

• Semesterwochenstunden: 2
• ECTS: 3
• Benotet: Ja
• Einschreibefrist: 1.10.2011 - 31.3.2012
• Lehrform: Seminar
• Belegungsart: Wahlpflichtmodul

Studiengänge, Modulgruppen & Module

Beschreibung

Automatic Question Answering (QA) has received researchers’ attention over the last decade. It aims to find a short answer string which exactly addresses the users' questions rather than overwhelm them with a large number of retrieved documents, which they must sort through to find the desired answer.

This goal is usually achieved using a combination of different techniques, including

• information retrieval
• information extraction
• natural language processing
• opinion mining.

In this seminar we will cover the most important components and techniques that are required for building a question answering system. In addition, the students will build a QA system that can answer questions from "Who wants to be a millionaire?".

More information can be found in the cource webpage at information systems research group.

Voraussetzungen

• basic knowledge on information retrieval and machine learning

Lern- und Lehrformen

• Weekly seminars
• Literature review for QA systems
• Implementation of a simple QA system for anwering multi-choice questions
• Presentation

Leistungserfassung

• Attending weekly seminars
• Reading of relevant literature for one of the QA components and giving an intermediate talk about the component
• Implementing one part of a simple question answering system for "Who wants to be a millionaire?"
• Presenting the final results of the implemented QA system

Termine

The first session in which we will propose the relevant topics will be on Monday, October 17th, 2011 at 15:15. Room: A 2-2

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