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Thoughts on STS regarding Machine Reading. Ralph Weischedel 12 March 2012. DARPA Machine Reading. Objective: Populate a knowledge based by reading text, given a customer-specified ontology Evaluation Queries: formal language Answers: formal language
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Thoughts on STS regardingMachine Reading Ralph Weischedel 12 March 2012
DARPA Machine Reading • Objective: • Populate a knowledge based by reading text, given a customer-specified ontology • Evaluation • Queries: formal language • Answers: formal language • Formal semantics & reasoning, rather than text similarity
Possible Application: Reading Comprehension(Question Answering) • Task: • Read text and answer NL questions with NL answers • Roles: • Semantic retrieval of sentences that may have an answer • Detecting redundancy • Automatic scoring? • Caveat • Assumes question has an answer in a single sentence