Demo: Using Qualitative Reasoning in Natural Language Question Answering
One of the goals of qualitative reasoning is to capture aspects of human commonsense reasoning, a sizeable portion of which involves reasoning about continuous processes. Commonsense models of these processes provide the grounding for learning more sophisticated models in school, and this is particularly important in science. Learning and applying said models requires integrating qualitative reasoning with other cognitive capabilities, including natural language understanding. This demonstration will show how QP theory is being used in the Companion cognitive architecture in learning by reading and in answering science test questions posed in simplified English.