Answering attitudinal questions: modelling the response process underlying contrastive questions

Answering Process Questions

A program is described which answers questions about processes-It is assumed that such questions should be answerable using as data only procedures for performing (simulating) the actions. Thus, the same procedure that is used to simulate the making of a sandwich can be listed to tell, in English, how to make a sandwich or can be examined to predict results and side effects such as the dirtying...

Answering the Hard Questions

We present an end-to-end system for open-domain non-factoid question-answering. To accomplish this we leverage the information on the ever-growing World Wide Web, and the capabilities of commercial search engines to find the relevant information. Our QA system is composed of three components: (i) query formulation module (QFM) (ii) candidate answer generation module (CAGM) and (iii) answer sele...

Answering Definitional Questions Before

Most question answering systems narrow down their search space by issuing a boolean IR query on a keyword indexed corpus. This technique often proves futile for definitional questions, because they only contain one keyword or name. Thus, an IR search for only that term is likely to produce many spurious results; documents that contain mentions of the keyword, but not in a definitional context. ...

Answering Clarification Questions

This paper describes the results of corpus and experimental investigation into the factors that affect the way clarification questions in dialogue are interpreted, and the way they are responded to. We present some results from an investigation using the BNC which show some general correlations between clarification request type, likelihood of answering, answer type and distance between questio...

Answering parents' questions.