Proposal Outline - 11791-04/project-team04 GitHub Wiki

1. What questions will you focus on for your final system (exact answer generation part)?

We will be focusing our Biomedical Question Answering System to support the following type of question:

List

2. What technologies/ 3rd party tools do you plan to use?

We will be using the UIMA framework for this project. 3rd party tools that we will be using include Apache Lucene, stanford-nlp, LingPipe library, Abner NER.

3. Brief overview of the main components of the system. What is the Intelligent component in your system?

The major components of our system include:

POS Tagger
Question type classifier (provided in the input)
Module to fetch document URLs through PUBMED APIs (provided in the archetype)
Answer Ranker
Answer extraction engines for different question types

4. Critical aspects of the system/ Possible pitfalls in your system.

If the retrieval and ranking systems fails, then the following answering engines will perform badly.

5. Evaluation/Error analysis of your system: a brief statement explaining how you will evaluate your method(s).

Measuring MAP and GMAP for the answer ranking system.

6. Team members and their andrew ids

Nikolas Wolfe (nwolfe)
Prajwal Yadapadithaya (pyadapad)
Di Xu (dix)
Joseph Chee Chang (josephc1)