TY - GEN
T1 - A new web-service-based architecture for question answering
AU - Chen, Zhe
AU - Dunwei, Wen
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - A natural language dialogue system is composed of many parts: natural language process, dialogue management, data query, etc. Adding a new service function to traditional complex dialogue systems, which is based on a mixed initiative paradigm, for example Question Answering (QA) service for E-commerce website, requires in general a big effort for redesigning dialogue management modules and other important modules. The new architecture suggested in this paper is based on registration of Web services, and all the services are distributed on agents. It can balance between overall dialogue management and particular agent service. The new services to be added in the system need only register as agents with a central managing server. That makes application of complex QA system much easier for website service application compared to traditional architecture. We discuss the advantages brought by the new architecture, including more extensibility, more effective, platform insensitivity, wider adaptability etc., and describe in detail how to implement the system modules.
AB - A natural language dialogue system is composed of many parts: natural language process, dialogue management, data query, etc. Adding a new service function to traditional complex dialogue systems, which is based on a mixed initiative paradigm, for example Question Answering (QA) service for E-commerce website, requires in general a big effort for redesigning dialogue management modules and other important modules. The new architecture suggested in this paper is based on registration of Web services, and all the services are distributed on agents. It can balance between overall dialogue management and particular agent service. The new services to be added in the system need only register as agents with a central managing server. That makes application of complex QA system much easier for website service application compared to traditional architecture. We discuss the advantages brought by the new architecture, including more extensibility, more effective, platform insensitivity, wider adaptability etc., and describe in detail how to implement the system modules.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33847311765&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/NLPKE.2005.1598730
DO - 10.1109/NLPKE.2005.1598730
M3 - Published Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33847311765
SN - 0780393619
SN - 9780780393615
T3 - Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, IEEE NLP-KE'05
SP - 179
EP - 183
BT - Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, IEEE NLP-KE'05
T2 - 2005 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, IEEE NLP-KE'05
Y2 - 30 October 2005 through 1 November 2005
ER -