EPIA'03 - 11th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence

	Session: December 5, 10:45-12:15, Room B
Title:	Mandarin Question Sentence Detection: A Preliminary Study
	Ping-Jer Yeh, Shyan-Ming Yuan
Abstract:	Detecting Mandarin question sentences is both interesting and difficult. To tackle this new topic, our strategy is first to try to increase recall and then precision. To achieve higher recall, we not only review relevant linguistic literature but also re-examine the issues from a new statistical and corpus point of view, and discover more comprehensive and precise question-related words. Then we present our statistical approaches and procedure, and discussed our findings. We achieve good recall and modest precision in the preliminary study, and pioneer the computational study of indefinitives.

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