Theorem-Proving by Resolution as a Basis for Question-Answering Systems

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C. Cordell Green
Bernard Meltzer, Donald Michie (eds.)
Machine Intelligence 4, pages 183–205
Machine Intelligence 4
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK
1969

This paper shows how a question-answering system can be constructed using first-order logic as its language and a resolution-type theorem-prover as its deductive mechanism. A working computer program, QA3, based on these ideas is described. The performance of the program compares favorably with several other general question-answering systems.