A Survey of Existing Question Answering Techniques for Indian Languages

Abstract

With advancement in technology, the process of question answering is the main field of research of text mining. In this process user is assigned a particular answers in place of number of text documents or paragraphs. It provides a way for obtaining appropriate and useful answers for questions of user put in native natural language instead of formal query in that language. Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Kannada, Telugu and Marathi etc are main spoken languages in India. For these Indian languages, very less number of language resources is available and much of research is going on for developing basic language resources in these languages. This paper discusses a survey of different question answering techniques for Indian languages.