People have always asked questions of their friends, but now, with social media, they can broadcast their questions to their entire social network. In this paper we study the replies received via Twitter question asking, and use what we learn to create a system that augments naturally occurring “friendsourced” answers with crowdsourced answers. By analyzing of thousands of public Twitter questi...

Community question answering (CQA) has recently become a popular means of satisfying personal information needs, and methods for effectively retrieving information from CQA archives are attracting research interest as the number of reusable questions and answers are rapidly increasing. Rather than having to post a question and wait for an answer, an individual can often obtain an immediate answ...

The article addresses the problem of how semantic information can be upgraded to knowledge. The introductory section explains the technical terminology and the relevant background. Section two argues that, for semantic information to be upgraded to knowledge, it is necessary and sufficient to be embedded in a network of questions and answers that correctly accounts for it. Section three shows t...

This paper describes Ms. Malaprop, a program (currently being designed) which wi l l answer questions about simple stories dealing with painting, where stories, questions and answers wi l l be expressed in semantic representation rather than English in order to allow concentration on the inferential problems involved in language comprehension. The common sense knowledge needed to accomplish the...

The paper deals with empirical questions that come attached with a presupposition. In case that the presupposition is not true, there is no unambiguous direct answer. In such a case an adequate complete answer is a negated presupposition. Yet these simple ideas are connected with a bunch of problems. First, we must distinguish between a pragmatic and semantic presupposition, and thus also betwe...

We introduce an authentication framework called Query-Directed Passwords (QDP) that is designed to incorporate the convenience of authentication by entrenched (long-term) knowledge questions (such as “What is your favorite marine animal?”), but to offer stronger security than from personal questions as traditionally used. Security is strengthened for this scheme by imposing several restrictions...

This withdrawal Assessment Report is based on the latest assessment report adopted by the CHMP with all information of a commercially confidential nature deleted. This should be read in conjunction with the “Questions and Answers” document on the withdrawal of the application: the Assessment Report may not include all available information on the product if the CHMP assessment of the latest sub...

This article presents the participation of Synapse Développement to the CLEF 2014 Entrance Exam campaign (QA track). Since fifteen years, our company works on Question Answering domain. Recently our work concentrated on Machine Reading and Natural Language understanding. Thus, the Entrance Exam evaluation was an excellent opportunity to measure the results of this work. The developed system is ...

The Votter Corpus is a new annotated corpus of social polling questions and answers. The Votter Corpus is novel in its use of the mobile application format and novel in its coverage of specific demographics. With over 26,000 polls and close to 1 millions votes, the Votter Corpus covers everyday question and answer language, primarily for users who are female and between the ages of 13-24. The c...