A conceptual theory of question answering

Authors:
Wendy G. Lehnert
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Venue:
IJCAI'77 Proceedings of the 5th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Year:
1977

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Abstract

A theory of Q/A has been proposed from the perspective of natural language processing that relieson ideas in conceptual information processing and theories of human memory organization. This theory of Q/A has been implemented in a computer program, QUALM. QUALM is currently used by two story understanding systems (SAM and PAM) to complete a natural language processing system that reads stories and answers questions about what was read.