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We describe the background and motivation for a logic-based framework, based on the theory of “Knowing-Aboutness”, and its specific application to Question-Answering. We present the salient features of our system, and outline the benefits of our framework in terms of a more integrated architecture that is more easily evaluated. Favourable results are presented in the TREC 2004 Question-Answering evaluation.
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Clifton, T., Teahan, W. (2005). Knowing-Aboutness: Question-Answering Using a Logic-Based Framework. In: Losada, D.E., Fernández-Luna, J.M. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3408. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31865-1_17
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