AAAI-05 Workshop on Inference for Textual Question Answering Pittsburgh AAAI-05
Pittsburgh Pittsburgh

Program

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Saturday, July 9

9:00-9:30 Textual Inference by Combining Multiple Logic Programming Paradigms
C. Baral, G. Gelfond, M. Gelfond, Richard B. Scherl
9:30-10:00 Moving QA Towards Reading Comprehension Using Context and Default Reasoning
C. Clark, D. Hodges, J. Stephan, D. Moldovan
10:00-10:30 Using AnsProlog with Link Grammar and WordNet for QA with Deep Reasoning
L. Tari, C. Baral
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Question Generation for Learning by Reading
L. Ureel II, K. Forbus, C. Riesbeck, L. Birnbaum
11:30-12:00 Question Answering Based on Temporal Inference
S. Harabagiu, C. Bejan
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:00 Syntactic and Semantic Decomposition Strategies for Question Answering from Multiple Resources
B. Katz, G. Borchardt, S. Felshin
14:00-14:30 Model-based Answer Selection
S. Sinha, S. Narayanan
14:30-15:00 A Basic Logic for Textual Davidsonian Inference
D. Bobrow, C. Condoravdi, R. Crouch, R. Kaplan, L. Karttunen, T. King, V. dePaiva, A. Zaenen
15:00-15:30 Determining the Plausibility of Answers to Questions
T. Smith, T. Repede, S. Lytinen
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Knowledge Representation via Verbal Description Generalization: Alternative Programming in Sampletalk Language
A. Gleibman
16:30-17:00 Description of the KnowItAll Project
O. Ezioni
17:00-18:00 Panel on Computational Models for Inference in QA
18:00-18:30 Invitation to the AAAI 2006 Spring Symposium on Formalizing and Compiling Background Knowledge and its Applications to KR and QA
C. Baral
18:30-18:40 Wrap-Up