There’s a lot missing here. During the brief and unhappy period of my life where I worked in this area, we had quite a lot of luck just generating semantics bas

There’s a lot missing here. During the brief and unhappy period of my life where I worked in this area, we had quite a lot of luck just generating semantics based on Wordnet in the domain in question. So here you can’t successfully ask for “French wines” even though we know what a country is and that French is a correct adjectival form. Same with things like “oldest wine”, that’s an easy to derive superlative based on info you already have. We got some mileage out of this old fashioned tree based system at the core, with fuzzier machine learning stuff at the edges.