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...
Abstract. The LogAnswer system is an application of automated reasoning to the field of open domain question-answering, the retrieval of answers to natural language questions regar...
Federal agencies implement laws passed by the Congress by creating rules and regulations that can be applied in practice. During this process, staffs at the various agencies may r...
A central problem in Interactive Question Answering (IQA) is how to answer Follow-Up Questions (FU Qs), possibly by taking advantage of information from the dialogue context. We a...
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...