EVE: A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM IN INFORMATION SEEKING FOR EVENTS

Oleh :  Ivan Christanno, Priscilla, Jody Johansyah Maulana, Derwin Suhartono

This research has aim to create a closed-domain question answering system specifically for events called Eve. Question answering system (QAS) is a system that accepts question input in form of natural language. The question will be processed through modules to finally return the most appropriate answer to the corresponding question instead of returning a full document as an output. The domain of Eve is events organized by HIMTI (Himpunan Mahasiswa Teknik Informatika) Binus University. Eve consists of 3 main modules namely query processing, information retrieval, and information extraction. Meanwhile the approaches used in this system include question classification, document indexing, and named entity recognition and others. For evaluation, Eve question answering system can answer 63 for word matching technique and 32 for word similarity technique out of 94 questions correctly.

Keywords: question answering system, event, closed domain