Web users use search engine to find useful information on the Internet. However current web search engines return answer to a query independent of specific user information need. S...
This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
The START system responds to natural language queries with answers in text, pictures, and other media. START's sentence-level natural language parsing relies on a number of m...
Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy J. Lin, Sue Felshin...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic ...
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...