Amharic Question Answering

[Terry Reedy]

seid muhie wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear All
> I am new to Python. Am new to NLP(NAtural LAnguage Processing) too.
> But take the initiation to develop Autamatic Amharic Question Answering 
> as part of my MSc. degree partial fuflfilment thesis work.

Please excuse my ignorance, but is an Amharic QA system different from 
an English QA system, other that the characters and language?

> Now I need,
> 1. If python could help me in doing the QA system
> 2. if any QA system been developed in Python.
> am going through the NLTK book with its nice examples. That is why I 
> seemed to prefer python as a development tool for my QA.

The only part I can answer is that Python2 supports Unicode, which I 
believe contains Amharic characters, which the upcoming Python3 uses 
Unicode as the text class.

tjr