Question Answering Systems in Education and their Classifications

Abstract Proceedings of Joint International Conference on Engineering Education & International Conference on Information Technology (ICEE/ICIT 2014) 2014
Olga Jakovļeva, Larisa Zaiceva

The paper studies Question Answering Systems that can be used in education as an engine to search for learning and/or other useful information. A wide set of different Question Answering Systems, such as START, Wolfram|Alpha, AllExperts, etc. is described and their main characteristics, benefits and drawbacks are given. The paper also presents four classifications of Question Answering Systems depending on: content, information source, language paradigm and information processing, as well as proposes recommendations for using Question Answering Systems in education

Keywords
question, answer, question answering system, classification

Ļebedeva, O., Zaiceva, L. Question Answering Systems in Education and their Classifications. In: Abstract Proceedings of Joint International Conference on Engineering Education & International Conference on Information Technology (ICEE/ICIT 2014), Latvia, Rīga, 2-6 June, 2014. Riga: RTU Press, 2014, pp.109-110. ISBN 978-9934-10-560-9.

Publication language
English (en)