Using a sociological approach to answering questions about paramedic professionalism and identity

A Sociological Approach to Self and Identity*

A Logic Based Approach to Answering Questions about Alternatives in DIY Domains

Many question answering systems have primarily focused on factoid questions. These systems require the answers to be explicitly stored in a knowledge base (KB) but due to this requirement, they fail to answer many questions for which the answers cannot be pre-formulated. This paper presents a question answering system which aims at answering non-factoid questions in the DIY domain using logic-b...

Answering the hard questions about thrombosis.

Answering Questions About Moving Objects in Videos

Current question answering systems succeed in many respects regarding questions about textual documents. However, information exists in other media, which provides both opportunities and challenges for question answering. We describe our efforts in extending question answering capabilities to video data: our implemented prototype, Spot, can answer questions about moving objects in a surveillanc...

A Hybrid Approach for Answering Definitional Questions

We present DefScriber, a fully implemented system that combines knowledgebased and statistical methods in forming multi-sentence answers to open-ended definitional questions of the form, “What is X?” We show how a set of definitional predicates proposed as the knowledge-based side of our approach can be used to guide the selection of definitional sentences. Finally, we present results of an eva...