Picante: Full of Spice

IBM Research Research Areas Natural Language Processing: "PIQUANT (Practical Intelligent QUestion ANswering Technology)

"The focus of the PIQUANT project is to explore how best to integrate and balance various technologies such as a knowledge base, NLP, planning and traditional text-based IR in order to build an efficient, modular, multi-agent Question Answering environment. The primary goal of PIQUANT is to improve question answering performance by leveraging knowledge-based, statistical, and linguistic approaches to QA. We have developed a modular and extensible QA architecture that facilitates the integration of independently produced knowledge sources, provides a uniform interface to accessing knowledge from these distinct sources, and enables employment of multiple answering agents that may employ vastly different strategies to answering questions. "

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