Techniques that were developed for program synthesis are being applied to allow multiple agents to communicate with each other and cooperate to solve a single problem. We illustrat...
Richard J. Waldinger, Peter Jarvis, Jennifer L. Du...
We describe our participation in the WiQA 2006 pilot on question answering using Wikipedia, with a focus on comparing linkbased vs content-based retrieval. Our system currently wor...
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...
This paper presents strategies and lessons learned from the use of natural language annotations to facilitate question answering in the START information access system.
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...