• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.539-545
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• 2004

For question answering system that extracts an answer and output to user‘s natural language question, a process of question type classification from user’s natural language query is very important. This paper proposes a question and answer type classifier using the interrogatives and word semantic categories instead of complicated classifying rules and huge dictionaries. Synonyms and postfix information are also used for question type classification. Experiments show that the semantic categories are helpful for question type classifying without interrogatives.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.21 no.4 s.54
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• pp.251-263
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• 2004

For question-answering system, question analysis module finds the question points from user's natural language questions, classifies the question types, and extracts some useful information for answer. This paper proposes a question type classifying technique based on focus words extracted from questions and word semantic information, instead of complicated rules or huge knowledge resources. It also shows how to find the question type without focus words, and how useful the synonym or postfix information to enhance the performance of classifying module.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.529-536
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• 2004

The main idea of this paper is to combine position information in sentence and query type classification to make the documents ranking to query more accessible. First, the use of conceptual graphs for the representation of document contents In information retrieval is discussed. The method is based on well-known strategies of text comparison, such as Dice Coefficient, with position-based weighted term. Second, we introduce a method for learning query type classification that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from Question Answering system. Proposed methods employ naive bayes classification in machine learning fields. And, we used a collection of approximately 30,000 question-answer pairs for training, obtained from Frequently Asked Question(FAQ) files on various subjects. The evaluation on a set of queries from international TREC-9 question answering track shows that the method with machine learning outperforms the underline other systems in TREC-9 (0.29 for mean reciprocal rank and 55.1% for precision).

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.4 no.7
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• pp.283-290
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a hybrid method for the recognition of answer types in the WiseQA system. The answer types are classified into two categories: the lexical answer type (LAT) and the semantic answer type (SAT). This paper proposes two models for the LAT detection. One is a rule-based model using question focuses. The other is a machine learning model based on sequence labeling. We also propose two models for the SAT classification. They are a machine learning model based on multiclass classification and a filtering-rule model based on the lexical answer type. The performance of the LAT detection and the SAT classification shows F1-score of 82.47% and precision of 77.13%, respectively. Compared with IBM Watson for the performance of the LAT, the precision is 1.0% lower and the recall is 7.4% higher.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.476-482
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• 2004

Question-Answering (QA) system has to analyze user's intention correctly to respond correct answer for user's question., This paper proposes a focus-word-based question analysis approach for Korean QA system to analyze user's intention correctly. focus-word is a clue-word which selects question type. The question type is determined to one in 75 subcategories using semantics of focus-words. the proposed system accomplished 97.18% accuracy for the main category and 95.31% accuracy for the subcategory in the question classification.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.1_2
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• pp.51-57
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• 2003

For QA systems to return correct answer phrases, it is very important that they correctly and stably analyze users' intention. To satisfy this need, we propose a question type classifier (i.e. asking point identifier) for practical QA systems. The classifier uses a hybrid method that combines a statistical method with a rule-based method according to some heuristic rules. Owing to the hybrid method, the classifier can reduce the time to manually construct rules, yield high precision rate and guarantee robustness. In the experiment, we accomplished 80% accuracy of the question type classification.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.106-116
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• 2021

To increase the quality of the system in the subjective-type question grading and document classification, we need the paragraph detection. But it is not easy because it is accompanied by semantic analysis. Many researches on the paragraph detection solve the detection problem using the word based clustering method. However, the word based method can not use the order and dependency relation between words. This paper suggests the paragraph detection system using syntactic-semantic relation between words with the Korean syntactic-semantic analysis. This system is the hybrid system of word based, concept based, and syntactic-semantic tree based detection. The experiment result of the system shows it has the better result than the word based system. This system will be utilized in Korean subjective question grading and document classification.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.83-92
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• 2018

The subjective question is appropriate for evaluation of deep thinking, but it is not easy to score. Since, regardless of same scoring criterion, the graders are able to produce different scores, we need the objective automatic evaluation system. However, the system has the problem of Korean analysis and comparison. This paper suggests the Korean syntactic analysis and subjective grading system using the syntactic-semantic tree comparator. This system is the hybrid grading system of word based and syntactic-semantic tree based grading. This system grades the answers on the subjective question using the syntactic-semantic comparator. This proposed system has the good result. This system will be utilized in Korean syntactic-semantic analysis, subjective question grading, and document classification.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.10
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• pp.1085-1093
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• 2016

Community-based Question Answering system is a system which provides answers for each question from the documents uploaded on web communities. In order to enhance the capacity of question analysis, former methods have developed specific rules suitable for a target region or have applied machine learning to partial processes. However, these methods incur an excessive cost for expanding fields or lead to cases in which system is overfitted for a specific field. This paper proposes a multiple machine learning method which automates the overall process by adapting appropriate machine learning in each procedure for efficient processing of community-based Question Answering system. This system can be divided into question analysis part and answer selection part. The question analysis part consists of the question focus extractor, which analyzes the focused phrases in questions and uses conditional random fields, and the question type classifier, which classifies topics of questions and uses support vector machine. In the answer selection part, the we trains weights that are used by the similarity estimation models through an artificial neural network. Also these are a number of cases in which the results of morphological analysis are not reliable for the data uploaded on web communities. Therefore, we suggest a method that minimizes the impact of morphological analysis by using character features in the stage of question analysis. The proposed system outperforms the former system by showing a Mean Average Precision criteria of 0.765 and R-Precision criteria of 0.872.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.141-144
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• 2004

질의응답 시스템이 정보검색 시스템과 다른 중요한 점은 질의 처리 과정이며, 자연어 질의 문장에서 사용자의 질의 의도를 파악하여 질의 유형을 분류하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 질의 주-형을 분류하기 위해 복잡한 분류 규칙이나 대용량의 사전 정보를 이용하지 않고 질의 문장에서 의문사에 해당하는 어휘들을 추출하고 주변에 나타나는 명사들의 의미 정보를 이용하여 세부적인 정답 유형을 결정할 수 있는 질의 유형 분류 방법을 제안한다. 의문사가 생략된 경우의 처리 방법과 동의어 정보와 접미사 정보를 이용하여 질의 유형 분류 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법을 제안한다.