Vulcan
This page has pointers to documents, resources, and demos.
Contents
Project Log
1. Meeting Notes
2. System development status
3. Experiments
Documents
2.System Design [Added a system architecture figure.]
3.Stephen's examples for quantification inference, and rule templates
Resources
Questions
NY Regents Sample of 4th-12th grade questions.
Definitions
Concept and Definitions extracted from 4th grade specific resources by Harcourt and McMillan.
A subset of definitions covering 4th grade science syllabus. The definitions are extracted from about seven different dictionaries.
Wikipedia sentences covering the target concepts.
Study Guide materials
Barrons Grade 4 Science Topics
Barrons Grade 4 Science Sentences
Software
Triplestores and Graph Inference Systems
A comparison of semantic reasoners
OpenRuleBench: An Analysis of the Performance of Rule Engines
UW Demos and Services
1. Verifying Propositions -- This interface takes a natural language sentence as input and finds support for the tuples extracted from the sentence. e.g., Antibiotics kill bacteria.
Vulcan Demos and Services
1. Vulcan Evaluation Server
Select the **SECOND** entry (Direct Question-Answering (XML returned)) and type in a question. If the UW question-answerer can return answers in the same structure, then the tester can interface with it and run the exams through.
Literature
Quantification
Aurelie Herbelot, Thesis.
BLP and MLNs
1. Learning to Read Between the Lines using Bayesian Logic Programs Raghavan and Mooney, ACL 2012.
2. Tuffy: Scaling up Statistical Inference in Markov Logic Networks using an RDBMS VLDB 2011. Slides
