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Title: | Fault detection and rectification algorithms in a question-answering system | ||||||
Author: | Hamdan, Abdul R. |
ISNI:
0000 0001 3528 0362
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Awarding Body: | Loughborough University of Technology | ||||||
Current Institution: | Loughborough University | ||||||
Date of Award: | 1987 | ||||||
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A Malay proverb "jika sesat di hujung jalan, baleklah kepangkal jalan" roughly means "if you get lost at the end of the road, go back to the beginning". In going back to the beginning of the road, we learn our mistakes and hopefully will not repeat the same mistake again. Thus, this work investigates the use of formal logic as a practical tool for reasoning why we could not infer or deduce a correct answer from a question posed to a database. An extension of the Prolog interpreter is written to mechanise a theorem-proving system based on Horn clauses. This extension procedure will form the basis of the question-answering system. Both input into and output from this system is in the form of predicate calculus. This system can answer all four classes of questions as classified by Chang and Lee (1973).
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Bangi, Malaysia) ; Public Service Department (JPA), Malaysia | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.378710 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
Keywords: | Prolog interpreter grammar | ||||||
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