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AQUA by BBN Technologies aims to provide comprehensive question answering by integrating statistical language models, knowledge sources, and formal reasoning. It develops proposition-recognition algorithms and interprets documents and questions as entities and relations. AQUA applies Cross-Document Entity Detection and Tracking (CEDT) for answering questions across sources and documents.
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Answering Questions through Understanding and Analysis (AQUA)BBN Technologies Objectives • Develop comprehensive system • Use statistical language models, knowledge sources, and formal reasoning • Develop proposition-recognition algorithm • Interpretation by entity relationship • model PLAN • Interpret documents and questions as entities and relations, not merely as bags of words • Apply Cross Document Entity Detection and Tracking (CEDT) algorithm to QA • Answers will be drawn from across documents and sources Principal Investigators:Ralph Weischedel / Scott Miller Topic Area: Total System Data Dimension: Focused (Text)