Deduction over mixed-level logic representations for text passage retrieval

A system is described that uses a mixed-level representation of (part of) the meaning of natural language documents (based on standard Horn clause logic) and a variable-depth search strategy that distinguishes between the different levels of abstraction in the knowledge representation to locate specific passages in the documents. Mixed-level representations as well as variable depth search strategies are applicable in fields outside that of NLP.

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