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Question answering service in e-learning environment is an important issue. Chinese semantic analysis is a key bottleneck for question answering service to understand question’s content. This paper proposes a question understanding model to understand and process syntactic and semantic structure. In this paper, we analyzed a lot of questions from students, and clustered questions based on knowledge points. The question understanding model is made to get question focus and question type. According to question focus and question type, the question answering service can precisely know the question’s answer by locating knowledge point’s attribute. This method could more perfectly understand semantic content of questions than using pure Chinese semantic analysis. It is very useful for students to study in a self-learning environment.
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Wu, ZH., Li, M., Feng, H. (2007). A Question Understanding Model Based on Knowledge Points for Chinese Question Answering Service in E-Learning. In: Shi, Y., van Albada, G.D., Dongarra, J., Sloot, P.M.A. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2007. ICCS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4489. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72588-6_81
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