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The theory and implementation of a bidirectional question answering system
John M. Levine, Lee Fedder
October 1989, 27 pages
DOI: 10.48456/tr-182
Abstract
This paper describes a question answering system which is a limited instance of the general bidirectional architecture suggested by Appelt (1987), The novel features of our approach include the use of a linguistically well-motivated set of functional features; a bidirectional grammar which encodes these features directly; a question answering program which uses the thematic organisation of the user’s input to construct a cooperative reply; and a tactical generation component which can be used with Montague semantics.
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@TechReport{UCAM-CL-TR-182, author = {Levine, John M. and Fedder, Lee}, title = {{The theory and implementation of a bidirectional question answering system}}, year = 1989, month = oct, url = {https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-182.pdf}, institution = {University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory}, doi = {10.48456/tr-182}, number = {UCAM-CL-TR-182} }