A Method for Automatically Generating Questions about a Userâ€™s Political Interest Using Minutes of Municipal Councils
Yasutomo Kimura , Hideyuki Shibuki , Keiichi Takamaru , Tetsuro Kobayashi ,Tatsunori Mori 
International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2010.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jcl/fulltext/v1n3/4.pdf
Abstract:
This paper proposes a political question generation method that includes Japanese noun phrases of the form N1 no N2. We focus on generating a yes-no question whether a user is interested in the utterance of a councilor. An example of a political question is as follows: nisankatanso(N1) no haisyutu(N2) nituite kuwasiku sir- itai desu ka? (Do you want to know more about emission levels of carbon dioxide?) In this paper, N1 and N2, mean a noun or a com- pound noun. The form N1 no N2 which includes the Japanese post- positional no has a much broader usage. These expressions of the form N1 it no N2 cannot often use a question expression for asking the interesting such as simin no minasan (All of citizens). Therefore, our method checks if an expression is whether a user can understand a question expression. Moreover, our method expands the expression N1 when a question expression of the form N1 no N2 is ambiguous. The experiment results yielded good.