We describe a "QUESTION-ANSWER" information system implemented on computer BESM-6 in the time-shared system. The "QUESTION-ANSWER" system is capable of deducing facts that have not been explicitly given to it by using a large data base and interpreting some of data as rules of inference. The system employs a special procedure which allows not to use contradictory information even if it is conta...

In The Sources of Normativity, Christine Korsgaard argues that in order to avoid the threat of moral skepticism, our moral theories must show how the claims they make about the nature of our actions obligate us to act morally. A theory that can justify the normativity of morality in this way answers what Korsgaard calls “the normative question.” Although Korsgaard claims that only Kantian theor...

This paper presents a novel answer summarization approach for community Question Answering services (cQAs) to address the problem of “incomplete answer”, i.e., missing valuable information from the “best answer” of a complex multi-sentence question, which can be obtained from other answers to the same question. Our method automatically generate a novel and non-redundant summary from cQA answers...

Question/Answer games (Q/A games) are a generalization of Ulam’s game and they model information extraction in parallel. A Q/A game, G = (D, s, (q1, . . . , qr)), is played on a directed acyclic graph, D = (V, E), with a distinguished start vertex s, between two players, Paul and Carole. In the i-th round, Paul selects a set, Qi ⊆ V , of at most qi non-terminal vertices. Carole responds by choo...

This paper is concerned with the way information access systems support the question answering process. This process includes three stages: question formulation, information gathering, and analysis and synthesis. Standard information access technologies are mainly concerned with the second of these stages, providing little or no support for the last stage. However, the raw information gathered ...

This paper presents different ways at different steps of question answering process to improve question answer match. First we discuss about the role and the importance of question categorization to guide the pairing. In order to process linguistic criteria, we describe a question pattern based categorization. Then we propose a statistical method and a linguistic method to enhance the pairing p...

1 Presentation I present in this paper the related work to my PhD thesis. It deals with an explanation approach for the generation of extended versions of text. The explanation is considered in the sense that an expansion is intended to make what is evoked into the text version understood. In order to give an account of this aspect, we resort to the notion of text questionnability deened by Vir...

This short position paper attempts to place current debates about the eecacy and morality of \intel-ligent agents" into a larger historical context that includes the work of Kant, Babbage, and Minsky, among others, and that emphasizes the cyclic nature of such debates. We also try to add some social and ethical reenements to the debate.

We approach cross-lingual question answering by using a mono-lingual QA system for the source language and by translating resulting answers into the target language. As far as we are aware, this is the first cross-lingual QA system in the history of CLEF that uses this method—all other cross-lingual QA systems known to us use translation of the question or query instead. We demonstrate the feas...