A Chinese Question Answering System for Single-Relation Factoid Questions.

Aiming at the task of open domain question answering based on knowledge base in NLPCC 2017, we build a question answering system which can automatically find the promised entities and predicates for single-relation questions. After a features based entity linking component and a word vector based candidate predicates generation component, deep convolutional neural networks are used to rerank the entitypredicate pairs, and all intermediary scores are used to choose the final predicted answers. Our approach achieved the F1-score of 47.23% on test data which obtained the first place in the contest of NLPCC 2017 Shared Task 5 (KBQA sub-task). Furthermore, there are also a series of experiments which can help other developers understand the contribution of every part of our system.