Web-Ear, an information retrieval system that uses reported speech expressions in Turkish

Abstract

Web-Ear is an information retrieval system in which anyone can search "What person X told about the topic Y" on the internet or in the database of the system. If the search is made on the internet, first the system submits a query to Google search engine and retrieves a set of information. In order to isolate speech portions of retrieved data, an extraction process is required to be performed according to pre-defined rules set by regular expressions, and only after then we have the data that we want to present to the user.