A prototype framework for a Bangla question answering system using translation based on transliteration and table look-up as an interface for the medical domain

Abstract

Question Answering (QA) Systems allow the user to ask questions in a natural language and obtain an exact answer. Through this thesis work, we tried to learn the important issues in the field of Question Answering (QA) systems. We peeked into the internals of many established QA systems. We explored the capabilities of each of' them and the reasons that make them good at their task. Then we looked into the details of cross-language QA task. We learned that most of such systems employ some form of machine translation engines.