The theme of this workshop is to discuss recent progress of Natural language question answering technology for providing knowledge services with users. Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original contributions covering completed or ongoing work related to the following research areas:

• Natural language question analysis

• IR-based question answering

• Knowledge-based question answering

• Natural language processing

• Multi-agent communication and problem solving

• Autonomous intelligent collaboration framework

• Distributed task planning and execution

• Ontology-based knowledgebase

• Knowledge-based negotiation and verification

• Intention recognition and analysis

• Information extraction

• Paraphrasing and textural entailments

• Ontology population and reasoning