People when asked a number of questions about a particular topic begin to become knowledgeable about the topic as they look for and find answers to the questions. A question answe...
Marc Light, Abraham Ittycheriah, Andrew Latto, Nan...
Most natural language database interfaces suffer from the translation knowledge portability problem, and are vulnerable to ill-formed questions because of their deep analysis. To a...
The Internet has made transfer of knowledge of successful community development programs and processes possible by allowing practitioners to connect through computer-mediated-comm...
Queen Esther Booker, Ana V. Lopez, Michael McQuaid...
This paper presents a Multiple Combined Ranker (MCR) approach for answering definitional questions. Generally, our MCR approach first extracts question target-related knowledge as ...
Recent TREC results have demonstrated the need for deeper text understanding methods. This paper introduces the idea of automated reasoning applied to question answering and shows...
Dan I. Moldovan, Christine Clark, Sanda M. Harabag...