A Few Survey of Developments and Challenges Arising on General and Indonesian Question Answering System

Abstract

Natural language based interaction between human and computer is an emerging research area with a wide range of possibilities for various types of application. For instance, Question Answer System (QAS) is being intensively researched and then broadly applied in the various ways. The QAS interfaces human and computer in retrieving the specific information from the collection of documents to natural language question queried by human. Generally speaking, the QAS has differed with the usual search engine on the given answer. On the one hand the search engines give a list of relevant documents to user query. On the other hand a short and exact answer is returned by QAS. This paper, as a small review of the QAS, would like to address the development trends, and then coupled with challenges arising on Indonesia QAS. The aim of this paper is to help in identifying the approaches and methods already used, and also to sign the challenges would be faced.