Re: Anyone worked on Question Answering system?

Hey- This is partial answer to question :-) check out : http://gneeves.org/ Not sure if more development has been done but you can ask them. Got this from here : http://www.shouldexist.org/?op=displaystory&sid=2000/6/19/161521/345 There was a little disacussion on developing the system but well, you'll see. Ask the author, he is nice knowledgable fellow. Philip -- be outside the box. On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Roy Nasser wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone worked on any "Question Answering System" such as AskJeeves.com > or TeRespondo.com (spanish)? > > Basically what these sites do is try to match your question to a question > which is already in their database. The system must however, take insto > consideration what the person is looking for, for example: > > When you search for: "How do I make a chocolate cake?" > > the software needs to know that you are looking under food [cake = food] > then it needs to know that you want to make it, so [make = recipe], and then > it can finally get you the aprozximate question (assuming it had this in > it's database) "Where can I find the recipe for a Chocolate Cake?". > > I think this would be the most logic way.... I understand that these methods > will require thousands of questions in a database, to make it of any use, > but we are prepared to have people for this... > > Any help would be greatly appreciated... > > Cheers, > Roy > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >