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...
Among the most important challenges for contemporary AI research are the development of methods for improved robustness, adaptability, and overall interactiveness of systems. Inter...
Abstract. Pratt and Third's syllogistic fragments of English can be used to capture, in addition to syllogistic reasoning, many other kinds of common sense reasoning, and, in ...
In many complex machine learning applications there is a need to learn multiple interdependent output variables, where knowledge of these interdependencies can be exploited to impr...
We develop the default logic for pragmatic analysis of natural language queries. Ambiguous sentences are considered so that each set of meanings is assigned an extension of defaul...