Inference for Textual Question Answering
Papers from the 2005 AAAI Workshop
Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Srini Narayanan, Christopher Manning, Daniel Bobrow, and Ken Forbus Program Cochairs
Technical Report WS-05-05 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Organizing Committee / 1
Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Srini Narayanan, Christopher Manning, Daniel Bobrow, Ken Forbus
Program Committee / 1
Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Srini Narayanan, Christopher Manning, Daniel Bobrow, Ken Forbus
Textual Inference by Combining Multiple Logic Programming Paradigms / 1
Chitta Baral, Gregory Gelfond, Michael Gelfond, and Richard B. Scherl
Moving QA Towards Reading Comprehension Using Context and Default Reasoning / 6
Christine Clark, Daniel Hodges, Jens Stephan, and Dan Moldovan
Using AnsProlog with Link Grammar and WordNet for QA with Deep Reasoning / 13
Luis Tari and Chitta Baral
Question Generation for Learning by Reading / 22
Leo C. Ureel II, Kenneth D. Forbus, Chris Riesbeck, and Larry Birnbaum
Question Answering Based on Temporal Inference / 27
Sanda Harabagiu and Cosmin Adrian Bejan
Syntactic and Semantic Decomposition Strategies for Question Answering from Multiple Resources / 35
Boris Katz, Gary Borchardt, and Sue Felshin
Model-based Answer Selection / 42
Steven Sinha and Srini Narayanan
A Basic Logic for Textual Inference / 47
D. Bobrow, C. Condoravdi, R. Crouch, R. Kaplan, L. Karttunen, T. King, V. dePaiva, and A. Zaenen
Determining the Plausibility of Answers to Questions / 52
Troy Smith, Thomas M. Repede, and Steven L. Lytinen
Knowledge Representation via Verbal Description Generalization: Alternative Programming in Sampletalk Language / 59
Andrew Gleibman