@conference {15319,
	title = {Gathering knowledge for a question answering system from heterogeneous information sources},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management - Volume 2001},
	series = {HLTKM {\textquoteright}01},
	year = {2001},
	month = {2001///},
	pages = {9:1{\textendash}9:8 - 9:1{\textendash}9:8},
	publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
	organization = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
	address = {Stroudsburg, PA, USA},
	abstract = {Although vast amounts of information are available electronically today, no effective information access mechanism exists to provide humans with convenient information access. A general, open-domain question answering system is a solution to this problem. We propose an architecture for a collaborative question answering system that contains four primary components: an annotations system for storing knowledge, a ternary expression representation of language, a transformational rule system for handling some complexities of language, and a collaborative mechanism by which ordinary users can contribute new knowledge by teaching the system new information. We have developed a initial prototype, called Webnotator, with which to test these ideas.},
	doi = {10.3115/1118220.1118229},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1118220.1118229},
	author = {Katz,Boris and Jimmy Lin and Felshin,Sue}
}
