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The classification of questions and the identification of their respective answer types are crucial for different parts of a dialogue system and especially important for Rapid Application Development purposes. A common taxonomy of question types helps to connect parsers, grammars, pattern-based language generation methods and the natural language understanding module. Thus, in this paper we will present an overview of different question types and propose an abstract question description.
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Berg, M.M., Düsterhöft, A., Thalheim, B. (2012). Towards Interrogative Types in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems. In: Bouma, G., Ittoo, A., Métais, E., Wortmann, H. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7337. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31178-9_38
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