Scaling textual inference to the web
Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld · 2008
Most Web-based Q/A systems work by finding pages that contain an explicit answer to a question. These systems are helpless if the answer has to be inferred from multiple sentences, possibly on different pages. To solve this problem, we introduce the Holmes system, which utilizes textual inference (TI) over tuples extracted from text.