Question Answering Systems
Papers from the 1999 Fall Symposium
Vinay Chaudhri and Richard Fikes, Program Cochairs
Technical Report FS-99-02. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
AAAI Fall Symposium on Question Answering Systems: Invited Talks / 1
George Miller, William Woods, David Warren, Adam Blum, Paul Cohen
AAAI Fall Symposium on Question Answering Systems: Panel Descriptions / 1
Pat Hayes, Ken Forbus, David Israel, Jin Chang, Mike Brodie, Doug Appelt, Donna Harman, Steve Maiorano, Yolanda Gil, Howie Shrobe, Amit Bagga, Wlodek Zadrozny, James Pustejowsky, Adam Pease
AAAI Fall Symposium on Question Answering Systems: Abstracts of Presentations Not Appearing in the Proceedings / 1
Hans Chalupsky, Susann Luperfoy, Eric Breck, John Burger, Lisa Ferro, Lynette Hirschman, David House, Marc Light, Inderjeet Mani
Semantics and Complexity of Question Answering Systems: Towards a Moore’s Law for Natural Language Engineering / 1
Amit Bagga, Wlodek Zadronzy, and James Pustejovsky
Adaptive Profile Inferences for Cooperative Query Answering / 11
Michael Barg and Raymond K. Wong
Concept Spaces and Queries in Context / 19
Alfs T. Berztiss
Question Answering from Large Document Collections / 26
Eric Breck, John Burger, David House, Marc Light, and Inderjeet Mani
Finding Hypothetical Answers with a Resolution Theorem Prover / 32
Debra T. Burhans and Stuart C. Shapiro
Transcendental Problem in Turing’s Test / 39
Jin W. Chang
A Knowledge-Based Approach to Question-Answering / 43
Peter Clark, John Thompson, and Bruce Porter
Query-Biased Text Summarization as a Question-Answering Technique / 52
Yllias Chali, Stan Matwin, and Stan Szpakowicz
A General Interface for Interaction of Special-Purpose Reasoners within a Modular Reasoning System / 57
Gleb Frank
Finding Answers in Large Collections of Texts: Paragraph Indexing + Abductive Inference / 63
Sandra M. Harabagiu and Steven J. Maiorano
Using Coreference to Improve Passage Retrieval for Question Answering / 72
Thomas S. Morton
The Energy, Environmental, and Economic Apprentice: A Question Answering System / 75
Harry E. Mynik and Richard Scherl
Knowledge-Based Information Retrieval / 81
Bruce Porter and Art Souther
Query Expansion in Description Logics and Carin / 91
Marie-Christine Rousset
Automated FAQ Answering: Continued Experience with Shallow Language Understanding / 97
Ericks Sneiders
An Intelligent Information System for Maritime Navigation Information / 108
Raphael Malyankar