Mining Answers from Texts and Knowledge Bases
Papers from 2002 AAAI Spring Symposium
Sanda M. Harabagiu and Vinay Chaudhri, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-02-06. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Preface / ix
Sanda M. Harabagiu and Vinay Chaudhri
An Evolutionary Genre-Based and Domain-Independent Approach for High-Level Knowledge Discovery from Texts / 1
John Atkinson-Abutridy, Chris Mellish, and Stuart Aitken
AskMSR: Question Answering Using the Worldwide Web / 7
Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Susan Dumais, and Jimmy Lin
Automatically Identifying Candidate Treatments from Existing Medical Literature / 9
Catherine Blake and Wanda Pratt
Finding Similar Content within Different Documents / 14
John O. Everett, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi, Richard Crouch, Valeria de Paiva, and Reinhard Stolle
Mining Answers for Causation Questions / 15
Roxana Girju and Dan Moldovan
Peer-Data Management Systems: Plumbing for the Semantic Web / 26
Alon Y. Halevy
Point and Paste Question Answering / 27
Sanda M. Harabagiu, Finley Lacatusu, and Paul Morarescu
Abductive Processes for Answer Justification / 33
Sanda M. Harabagiu and Steven J. Maiorano
Gleaning Answers from the Web / 43
Nicholas Kushmerick
The Use of Question Types to Match Questions in FAQFinder / 46
Steven L. Lytinen and Noriko Tomuro
Qanda and the Catalyst Architecture / 54
Scott Mardis and John Burger
Explaining Knowledge Bases for Query Answering on the Semantic Web / 59
Deborah L. McGuinness
Text Mining with Information Extraction / 60
Un Yong Nahm and Raymond J. Mooney
Answering Comparison Questions in SHAKEN: A Progress Report / 68
Shawn Nicholson and Kenneth D. Forbus
Processing Definition Questions in an Open-Domain Question Answering System / 73
Marius Pasca
Panel: Large Knowledge Bases / 79
Adam Pease, Chris Welty, Pat Hayes, Anthony G. Cohn, and Ken Murray
Mining Answers from Texts and Knowledge Bases: Our Position / 80
Bruce Porter, Ken Barker, James Fan, Paul Navratil, Dan Tecuci, Peter Yeh and Peter Clark
Searching for Narrative Structures / 82
Henrik Schärfe
Qualitative Spatial Reasoning for Question-aAswering: Axiom Reuse and Algebraic Methods / 87
Tomás E. Uribe, Vinay Chaudhri, Patrick J. Hayes, and Mark E. Stickel
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