On the Effective Use of Cyc in a Question Answering System
Jon Curtis, Gavin Matthews, David Baxter · 2005
Topics: flexibility supported by discourse/user model, new types of questions, reasoning with incomplete knowledge, response generation. We describe a commercial question-answering system that uses AI – specifically, the Cyc system – to support passage retrieval and perform deductive QA, to produce results superior to what each question-answering technique could produce alone. 1