In this study we investigate the intonational characteristics of the four utterance types statement, wh-question, yes/no-question and declarative question. Readings of two German scripted dialogues were examined to ascertain characteristic features of the F0 contour for each utterance type. Final boundary tone, nuclear pitch accent, F0 offset, F0 onset, F0 range, and the slopes of a topline and...

Abstract With the swift growth of information over past few years, taking full benefit is increasingly essential. Question Answering System one promising methods to access this much information. The lacks humans’ common sense and reasoning power cannot identify unanswerable questions irrelevant questions. These are answered by making unreliable incorrect guesses. In paper, we address limitation...

The first step of processing a question in Question Answering(QA) Systems is to carry out a detailed analysis of the question for the purpose of determining what it is asking for and how to perfectly approach answering it. Our Question analysis uses several techniques to analyze any question given in natural language: a Stanford POS Tagger & parser for Arabic language, a named entity recognizer...