Multi-choice Question Answering System of WIP at NTCIR-12 QA Lab-2

ABSTRACT This paper describes a multi-choice question answering system we designed for the . This system aims at analysing and answering world history multi-choice questions in the Japanese National Center Test (in English). Our system utilizes preliminary results from an information retrieval baseline as a starting point, and improves by taking structured knowledge base as well as additional time constraints into consideration. In the final evaluation, we achieved 34 points on the 2011 test dataset. Team Name WIP Subtasks National Center Tests, Formal Run (English