... revolutionary idea of introducing Question Answering System as an alternative solution Figure General architecture of a Question Answering System The question analysis module takes natural language... around 120 patterns [6] A typical Question Answering System, as shown in Fig 1, follows a pipeline architecture It consists of three main modules: Question analysis, Document analysis, and Answer... 978-1-4673-9155-9/15 $31.00 © 2015 IEEE DOI 10.1109/ACLing.2015.25 131 127 The final component in the general architecture of Question Answering System is the representation of the user answer from the selected