Entailment-based Question Answering for Structured Data

This paper describes a Question Answering system which retrieves answers from structured data regarding cinemas and movies. The system represents the first prototype of a multilingual and multimodal QA system for the domain of tourism. Based on specially designed domain ontology and using Textual Entailment as a means for semantic inference, the system can be used in both monolingual and cross-language settings with slight adjustments for new input languages.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Bogdan Sacaleanu, Constantin Orasan, Christian Spurk, Shiyan Ou, Óscar Ferrández, Milen Kouylekov, Matteo Negri
• Keywords: COLING 2008, Computational Linguistics, Data Regarding Cinemas, Multimodal Qa, Textual Entailment