Classic Chinese Automatic Question Answering System Based on Pragmatics Information

In this paper, we propose a practical question answering system for the "Analects of Confucius" based on the pragmatics information. The "Analects of Confucius" is a classic Chinese literature by the Confucian during the Warring States Period (476 B.C-221 B.C ). But the literature can not be categorized by topics and it has comprehensive meanings, not only the literal meanings and explicitly communicated meanings of the passages, but also deeper meanings and implicitly communicated meanings (Here, we call the deep meaning and implicitly communicated meaning as pragmatics information). Therefore we constructed a QA system, which aims to help understanding the ''Analects of Confucius'' correctly. According to the experiments, the pragmatics information based retrieval results are more accurate than the results based on the interpretations in modern language.