Student research opportunities
Natural Language Query Answering from Wikipedia
Project Code: CECS_43
This project is available at the following levels:
Honours, Summer Scholar, Masters
Keywords:
Natural Language Processing; Information Retrieval; Question Answering
Supervisor:
Dr Scott SannerOutline:
Have you ever wanted to ask your computer a question in natural language and have it respond with the answer you wanted? It sounds like a daunting task, but many of the foundations of such a technology are well understood and Wikipedia provides a wonderful open source natural language knowledge base to support this task.
Goals of this project
In this project, you will combine various off-the-shelf information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP) tools including part-of-speech taggers, parsers, and co-reference resolvers to build up a small demonstration system to answer simple natural language queries from Wikipedia.
Requirements/Prerequisites
Good coding skills in Java.
Background Literature
It's only appropriate that Wikipedia itself has an entry on Question Answering.
