The ability to answer prediction questions is crucial to reasoning about physical systems. A prediction question poses a hypothetical scenario and asks for the resulting behavior ...
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.
ContactFinder is an intelligent agent whose approach to assisting users is valuable and innovative in the following four ways. First, ContactFinder operates proactively in reading...
TheWorldWideWebcontinues to challenge organizations to makeonline access to their expertise convenient for their clients. Onemeansof expertise access that manyclients find conveni...
Vladimir A. Kulyukin, Kristian J. Hammond, Robin D...