This paper presents our implemented computational model for interpreting and generating indirect answers to Yes-No questions. Its main features are 1) a discourse-plan-based appro...
: Question answering systems have proven to be helpful to users because they can provide succinct answers that do not require users to wade through a large number of documents. How...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...
In this paper we introduce the semantic approach of the answer extraction component of a question answering system called SBUQA. The answer extraction component gets the retrieved...
We present a query answering technique based on notions and results from modal Correspondence Theory. It allows us to answer a wide family of conjunctive queries by polynomial redu...
As WWW becomes more and more popular and powerful, how to search information on the web in database way becomes an important research topic. COMMIX, which is developed in the DB g...
Tengjiao Wang, Shiwei Tang, Dongqing Yang, Jun Gao...