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IUI
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
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...
Ana-Maria Popescu, Oren Etzioni, Henry A. Kautz
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CADE
2008
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Combining Theorem Proving with Natural Language Processing
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...
Björn Pelzer, Ingo Glöckner
DGO
2003
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14 years 11 months ago
Better Public Policy Through Natural Language Information Access
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...
Boris Katz, Roger Hurwitz, Jimmy J. Lin, Özle...
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SIGDIAL
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Towards an Empirically Motivated Typology of Follow-Up Questions: The Role of Dialogue Context
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...
Manuel Kirschner, Raffaella Bernardi
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Answering complex questions with random walk models
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...