TY - GEN
T1 - Constructing a Textual KB from a Biology TextBook
AU - Clark, Peter
AU - Harrison, Phil
AU - Balasubramanian, Niranjan
AU - Etzioni, Oren
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2012 Association for Computational Linguistics
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - As part of our work on building a "knowledgeable textbook" about biology, we are developing a textual question-answering (QA) system that can answer certain classes of biology questions posed by users. In support of that, we are building a "textual KB" - an assembled set of semi-structured assertions based on the book - that can be used to answer users' queries, can be improved using global consistency constraints, and can be potentially validated and corrected by domain experts. Our approach is to view the KB as systematically caching answers from a QA system, and the QA system as assembling answers from the KB, the whole process kickstarted with an initial set of textual extractions from the book text itself. Although this research is only in a preliminary stage, we summarize our progress and lessons learned to date.
AB - As part of our work on building a "knowledgeable textbook" about biology, we are developing a textual question-answering (QA) system that can answer certain classes of biology questions posed by users. In support of that, we are building a "textual KB" - an assembled set of semi-structured assertions based on the book - that can be used to answer users' queries, can be improved using global consistency constraints, and can be potentially validated and corrected by domain experts. Our approach is to view the KB as systematically caching answers from a QA system, and the QA system as assembling answers from the KB, the whole process kickstarted with an initial set of textual extractions from the book text itself. Although this research is only in a preliminary stage, we summarize our progress and lessons learned to date.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84997449550
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84997449550
T3 - Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-Scale Knowledge Extraction, AKBC-WEKEX 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012
SP - 74
EP - 78
BT - Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-Scale Knowledge Extraction, AKBC-WEKEX 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
A2 - Fan, James
A2 - Hoffman, Raphael
A2 - Kalyanpur, Aditya
A2 - Riedel, Sebastian
A2 - Suchanek, Fabian
A2 - Talukdar, Partha Pratim
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 2021 Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-Scale Knowledge Extraction, AKBC-WEKEX 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012
Y2 - 7 June 2012 through 8 June 2012
ER -