Flexible query answering systems
By: edited by Troels Andreasen, Henning Christiansen, Henrik Legind Larsen.
Contributors: Andreasen, Troels.; Christiansen, Henning, 1955-; Larsen, Henrik Legind.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Question-answering systems.; Database searching.
Description: Flexible Query Answering Systems is an edited collection of contributed chapters. It focuses on developing computer systems capable of transforming a query into an answer with useful information. The emphasis is on problems associated with high-level intelligent answering systems.

The coverage is multidisciplinary with chapters by authors from information science, logic, fuzzy systems, databases, artificial intelligence and knowledge representation. Each contribution represents a theory involving flexibility in query-answering, and each addresses specific answering problems. Flexible Query Answering Systems is a timely contribution for researchers working on high-level query mechanism systems.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.