As noted in prior posts about Project Sherlock, we have acquired knowledge from a biology textbook to build the business case for applications like Inquire. We reported our results at SemTech recently. The slides are available here.
systems that know and understand and think and learn
[...] last week, a few companies asked me how to respond to IBM’s Watson given my involvement with rapid knowledge acquisition for deep question answering at Vulcan. My answer varies with whether there is any subject matter [...]
[...] of their answers and explanations). The result of this parsing is, as we’ve described elsewhere, precise lexical, syntactic, semantic, and logic understanding of each sentence in the content. [...]
[...] For example, compare the logical forms in the Groningen Meaning Bank with the logic produced by the Linguist. The former uses CCG to produce lambda calculus while the latter uses HPSG to produce predicate [...]