{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"A Conceptual Theory of Question Answering","authors":[{"name":"Wendy G. Lehnert","slug":"wendy-g-lehnert","given":"Wendy G.","family":"Lehnert","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"A theory of Q/A has been proposed from the perspective of natural language processing that relies on ideas in conceptual information processing and theories of human memory organization. This theory of Q/A has been implemented in a computer program, QUALM. QUALM is currently used by two story understanding systems (SAM and PAM) to complete a natural language processing system that reads stories and answers questions about what was read. Keywords: natural language processing, computational question answering, conceptual information","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/33","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0033.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/33.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/bibtex/33","volume":{"slug":"1977","title":"Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1977","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/","year":1977,"location":"Cambridge, MA, USA","dates":"","editors":"Raj Reddy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":33,"pages":{"first":158,"last":163},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}