One of the grand challenges of AI is to build systems that learn by reading. The ideal system would construct a rich knowledge base capable of automated reasoning. We have built a...
This position paper argues for an interactive approach to text understanding. The proposed model extends an existing semantics-based text authoring system by using the input text ...
In this case study I argue for the usage of a machine-oriented controlled natural language as interface language to knowledge systems. Instead of using formal languages that are di...
Finding temporal and causal relations is crucial to understanding the semantic structure of a text. Since existing corpora provide no parallel temporal and causal annotations, we ...
Children do not learn the meanings of words from parsing and understanding gigabytes of text; instead meanings are learned from competent speakers who relate language to what'...