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International Conference on Logic Programming

ICLP 2009: Logic Programming pp 544–546Cite as

Answering Questions from Natural Language Using A-Prolog

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The topic of this research is the development of methodology for building computer systems capable of answering questions from natural language (NL) texts. Existing methodologies take the NL text and question as an input, transform it to a logical form, and use reasoning systems to obtain the answer. Sometimes little or no commonsense knowledge is added to the original input. However, we believe that most answers are commonsense answers and we want to investigate how additional knowledge can be used to produce them.

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  1. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409, USA

    Yana Todorova

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  1. School of Computing, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK

    Patricia M. Hill

  2. Deptartment of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, 11794-4400, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    David S. Warren

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Todorova, Y. (2009). Answering Questions from Natural Language Using A-Prolog. In: Hill, P.M., Warren, D.S. (eds) Logic Programming. ICLP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5649. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02846-5_56

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