“Read about how one would query to retrieve the longest word in the English language: is it ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’ (a possible answer) or possibly ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’ (a better answer?) According to Bill: These tasks will require systems that can determine what passages are saying and reason with the resulting knowledge, and they will require additional sources of knowledge and advancements in automated reasoning. An active research area devoted to question-answering is currently pursuing such goals.” (W.A. Woods – Sun Microsystems Laboratories)