Answering questions that ask about temporal information involves several forms of inference. In order to develop question answering capabilities that benefit from temporal inference, we believe that a large corpus of questions and answers that are discovered based on temporal information should be available. This paper describes our methodology for creating AnswerTime-Bank, a large corpus of qu...

In this paper we argue that access to rich semantic structures derived from questions and answers will enable both the retrieval of more accurate answers to simple questions and enable inference processes that explain the validity and contextual coverage of answers to complex questions. Processing complex questions involves the identifications of several forms of complex semantic structures. An...

cultural requirements. It is set out in the unusual form of questions and answers, between an engaged couple and a doctor; all of which, we are told, are based on factual conversations; though it would be unusual to find such a series of logically consecutive questions (or perhaps answers) as are provided in these chapters! It is easy to refer to, and though technical, anatomical and physiologi...

HotOS XIV Opening Remarks Summarized by Rik Farrow ([email protected]) Petros Maniatis, Intel Labs, the PC chair, explained the ground rules for the HotOS ’13. Presenters had only 10 minutes, with a few minutes for questions and answers as the next presenter set up his or her laptop. Each talk session was followed by a half-hour open mike session, where participants were welcome to speak on any to...

To answer our questions, we looked at existing administrative documentation and practices. We also looked at similar questions and answers from other campuses, particularly those generated in the context of the Carnegie Foundation for Teaching’s "Scholarship Revisited" projects. Also, we asked each academic department at Cal Poly to engage in collegial discussion about the scholarship of teachi...