Research on passage retrieval using domain knowledge in Chinese question answering system

In order to improve the accuracy of passage retrieval in restrict domain question answering system, The paper proposes a retrieval method using domain knowledge in Chinese question answering system. This method extracts question keywords by analyzing syntactic structure, expands synonymous keywords with the help of ldquoHowNetrdquo and ldquoField HowNetrdquo to do question query, and then extracts text with improved NUTCH retrieval system, finally improves the retrieval method MuliTex according to domain knowledge, arranges the order and calculates weight of paragraphs. On this base, the method extracts related paragraphs as answers, and then has carried on the question and answer experimental verification in the traveling domain. The result shows this method has a good effect. The value of retrieval MRR is up to 0.45.