Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives

Edited by
Raffaella Bernardi and Michael Moortgat
Free University of Bolzano, Italy
UiL OTS, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
CoLogNET Area 6: Logic for Natural Language Processing


Table of Contents

Frontmatter, Introduction


Invited Papers

Werner Ceusters, Barry Smith and Maarten van Mol
Using ontology in query answering systems: scenarios, requirements and challenges
[Paper], [Abstract]

Jeroen Groenendijk
Questions and Answers: Semantics and Logic
[Paper], [Abstract]

Karen Sparck Jones
Is question answering a rational task?
[Paper], [Extra Ref], [Abstract]


Contributed Long Papers

Troels Andreasen, Henrik Bulskov Rasmus Knappe
From Ontology over Similarity to Query Evaluation
[Paper], [Abstract]

Raffaella Bernardi, Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne and Maarten de Rijke
Selectively Using Linguistic Resources throughout the Question Answering Pipeline
[Paper], [Abstract]

J.-B. Berthelin, G. de Chalendar, F. Elkateb-Gara, O. Ferret, B. Grau, M. Hurault-Plantet, G. Illouz, L. Monceaux, I. Robba,
Getting reliable answers by exploiting results from several sources of information
[Paper], [Abstract]

Tiphaine Dalmas and Bonnie Webber
Information Fusion for Answering Factoid Questions
[Paper], [Abstract]

Günter Neumann Feiyu Xu and Bogdan Sacaleanu
Strategies for Web-based Cross-Language Question Answering
[Paper], [Abstract]

Robert van Rooy
Questions and Relevance
[Paper], [Abstract]

Marina Terkourafi and Aline Villavicencio
Toward a formalisation of speech-act functions of questions in conversation
[Paper], [Abstract]


Contributed Short Papers

Francesca Bertagna
Italian Language Resources in a Question Answering Task
[Paper], [Abstract]

Philipp Cimiano
Translating Wh-questions into F-Logic Queries
[Paper], [Abstract]

Frank Schilder, Christopher Habel and Yannick Versley
Temporal information extraction and question answering: deriving answers for when-questions
[Paper], [Abstract]

Kentaro Torisawa
An Unsupervised Learning Method for Commonsensical Inference Rules on Events
[Paper], [Abstract]