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Parallelization Issues of Domain Specific Question Answering System on Cell B.E. Processors

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Contemporary Computing (IC3 2009)

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A question answering system is an information retrieval application which allows users to directly obtain appropriate answers to a question. In order to deal with an explosive growth of information over internet and increased number of processing stages in answer retrieval, time and processing hardware required by question answering system has increased. The need of hardware is currently served by connecting thousands of computers in cluster. But faster and less complex alternatives can be found as a multi-core processor. This paper presents a pioneer work by identifying major issues involved in porting a general question answering framework on a cell processor and their possible solutions. The work is evaluated by porting the indexing algorithm of our biomedical question answering system, INDOC (Internet Doctor) on cell processors.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

    Tarun Kumar & Ankush Mittal

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

    Parikshit Sondhi

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  1. Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA

    Sanjay Ranka

  2. Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, Iowa State University, USA

    Srinivas Aluru

  3. Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory and, NICTA Victoria Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia

    Rajkumar Buyya

  4. Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

    Yeh-Ching Chung

  5. Computer Science, College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, 71272, USA

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  6. Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

    Ananth Grama

  7. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA

    Sandeep K. S. Gupta

  8. Computer Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 721 302, WB, India

    Rajeev Kumar

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Kumar, T., Mittal, A., Sondhi, P. (2009). Parallelization Issues of Domain Specific Question Answering System on Cell B.E. Processors. In: Ranka, S., et al. Contemporary Computing. IC3 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03547-0_39

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