3 papers
cs.CL2000
On the Scalability of the Answer Extraction System "ExtrAns"
Diego Moll'a Aliod, Michael Hess
This paper reports on the scalability of the answer extraction system ExtrAns. An answer extraction system locates the exact phrases in the documents that contain the explicit answ…
cs.CL2000
A Real World Implementation of Answer Extraction
D. Molla, J. Berri, M. Hess
In this paper we describe ExtrAns, an answer extraction system. Answer extraction (AE) aims at retrieving those exact passages of a document that directly answer a given user quest…
cs.CL1999
Mixed-Level Knowledge Representation and Variable-Depth Inference in Natural Language Processing
Michael Hess
A system is described that uses a mixed-level knowledge representation based on standard Horn Clause Logic to represent (part of) the meaning of natural language documents. A varia…