This is a real simple rule based question classifier inspired by this paper.
http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/Data/QA/QC/definition.html
Using Trec 10 Labled questions from : http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/Data/QA/QC/
npm install qtypes classify("How many steps from here to Alaska?"); // NUM:count questionType("How many steps from here to Alaska?"); // WH Returns - CH: Choice or Alternate Question - WH: QWord Question - YN: Yes/No Question - TG: Tag Question assert("file", callback) See the test file for an example.
Results in sample questions are roughtly 80+% on course features and 75% on finer sub categories
{coarse: 80.19603920784157, fine: 71.37427485497099 }