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Analyzing Linguistic Features for Classifying Why-Type Non-Factoid Questions

Analyzing Linguistic Features for Classifying Why-Type Non-Factoid Questions

Manvi Breja, Sanjay Kumar Jain
Copyright: © 2021 |Volume: 16 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 18
ISSN: 1554-1045|EISSN: 1554-1053|EISBN13: 9781799859765|DOI: 10.4018/IJITWE.2021070102
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Breja, Manvi, and Sanjay Kumar Jain. "Analyzing Linguistic Features for Classifying Why-Type Non-Factoid Questions." IJITWE vol.16, no.3 2021: pp.21-38. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJITWE.2021070102

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Breja, M. & Jain, S. K. (2021). Analyzing Linguistic Features for Classifying Why-Type Non-Factoid Questions. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE), 16(3), 21-38. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJITWE.2021070102

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Breja, Manvi, and Sanjay Kumar Jain. "Analyzing Linguistic Features for Classifying Why-Type Non-Factoid Questions," International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) 16, no.3: 21-38. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJITWE.2021070102

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Abstract

Why-type non-factoid questions are complex and difficult to answer compared to factoid questions. A challenge in finding an accurate answer to a non-factoid question is to understand the intent of user as it differs with their knowledge and also the context of the question in which it is being asked. Predicting correct type of a question and its answer by a classification model is an important issue as it affects the subsequent processing of its answer. In this paper, a classification model is proposed which is trained by a combination of lexical, syntactic, and semantic features to classify open-domain why-type questions. Various supervised classifiers are trained on a featured dataset out of which support vector machine achieves the highest accuracy of 81% in determining question type and 76.8% in determining answer type which shows 14.6% improvement in predicting an answer type over a baseline why-type classifier with 62.2% accuracy.

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