Factoid and definitional Arabic Question Answering system

Abstract

The amount of available information is becoming very huge, especially with the Web proliferation. The problem faced by the user is not the lack of documents or information but is the lack of time to find a short and precise answer among the variety of available documents. Search engines offer a lot of links toward web pages, but are not able to provide an exact answer. Thus, a new need is emerged: the possibility of obtaining a unique, brief and concise answer. It is the main goal of Question Answering systems. The proposed Question Answering deals factoid and definition question. It employs the NooJ platform which represents a valuable linguistic development environment.