Semantic analysis and classification of medical questions for a logic-based medical question-answering system

Author(s):  
S.J. Athenikos ◽  
Hyoil Han ◽  
A.D. Brooks
1975 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
I. Batoni ◽  
R. Henning ◽  
H. Lehmann ◽  
B. Schirmer ◽  
M. Zoeppritz

Abstract LIANA is a question answering system in PL/1. The program takes German natural language input and, by morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis, creates a representation of the text, which is stored and can be accessed for retrieval purposes. All individuals (objects) mentioned in the sentence are found and stored. In continuous text, therefore, information about individuals can be piled up successively. LIANA uses the programming concept of the Boston Syntax Analyzer. Therefore, the output of syntactic analysis is a tree structure, simulated through pointers which connect the nodes in the tree. Each node is associated with a feature table which is operated on by the semantic interpretation. Node and feature handling is facilitated by a set of macros for adding, erasing, and checking features and copying, deleting, and inserting nodes.


The first phase of the question answering process is the detailed process of the question analysis. Thus it analyzes what kind of question and how it can be answered. Question analysis uses the parsing and semantic analysis of the dataset. Thus this journal gives the entire impact on how an answer is perfectly retrieved and prioritised


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