Developing a Natural Language Question Answering System As a Logic Program

This book presents the merging of state-of-the-art techniques in computational linguistic and logic programming with the practical experience of knowledge engineering and domain development management up to overall building of question answering business. The developed technique is illustrated with software applications with millions of users (e.g. US taxpayers). The book addresses the issues in natural language processing in a comprehensive manner: from syntactical to pragmatic analyses, from formal models of language and its understanding to the specifics of end user presentation. It contains a thorough manual on coding the natural language processing engine, as well as a variety of question answering domains. World knowledge and commonsense ontology are represented for domains of various natures, from industrial to financial and from psychological to medical. Indeed, when a reader is about to design a particular domain, it is likely that an existing one, available on Knowledge Trail's website, will be reused. Applied linguists, knowledge engineers, programmers of databases and human computer interaction, IT management professionals.Galitsky, Boris is the author of 'Developing a Natural Language Question Answering System As a Logic Program', published 2003 under ISBN 9789812383297 and ISBN 9812383298.