Question Answering System Menggunakan N-Gram Term Weight Model

Abstract

Currently, search engine has been widely developed having question query feature known as the query answering system. The information provided by the system must fit a specific user requirement. This research will apply the passage selection method using n-gram term weighting model. The evaluation of the method is measured based on the set of questions and documents, and the accuracy for each answer. One thousand documents and 40 queries are used in this research. The result of the research indicates the accuracy for WHO questions is 90%, for WHEN questions is 80%, for WHERE questions is 80%, and for HOW MUCH/MANY questions is 40%.