Modelling a Question-answering System Using Structured Representation of Assamese Text

Information or knowledge contained by the texts is structured in a language specific syntactic form. They are neither understood nor processed by the computers. They must be organized in a structured form. Structured representation of sentences written in a particular language enables a computer to have a good understanding of the knowledge they contain. Such type of representation is also useful for modelling systems like information retrieval, question-answering, machine learning etc. This paper focuses on extracting knowledge from sentences in a form convenient for manipulation through computers. We are basically concerned with representing these structures of sentences written in Assamese language. Moreover, we have also tried to extract answers to questions from these generated structures. Our primary goal of research is to design and develop a question-answering system for Assamese language which is expected to bring a new era of digital renaissance in the field of Artificial Intelligence for this language.