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AGI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
A Cognitive Substrate for Natural Language Understanding
Our goal is to understand human language use and create systems that can use human language fluently. We argue that to a achieve this goal, we must formulate all of the problems fo...
Nicholas L. Cassimatis, Arthi Murugesan, Magdalena...
IJPRAI
2000
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13 years 8 months ago
Knowledge Base Reformation: Preparing First-Order Theories for Efficient Propositional Reasoning
We present an approach to knowledge compilation that transforms a function-free first-order Horn knowledge base to propositional logic. This form of compilation is important since...
Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Gerhard Schur...
WCE
2007
13 years 10 months ago
An Intelligent Conversational Agent Approach to Extracting Queries from Natural Language
—This paper is concerned with the application of a conversational agent and expert system to provide a natural language interface to a database. Typically, natural language datab...
Karen Pudner, Keeley A. Crockett, Zuhair Bandar
SIGLEX
1991
14 years 15 days ago
Presuppositions and Default Reasoning: A Study in Lexical Pragmatics
Explaining how the meaning of words relate to the meaning of the utterance in which they are used is of utmost importance. The most common approaches view the meaning of an uttera...
Robert E. Mercer
ACL
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Integration of Large-Scale Linguistic Resources in a Natural Language Understanding System
Knowledge acquisition is a serious bottleneck for natural language understanding systems. For this reason, large-scale linguistic resources have been compiled and made available b...
Lewis M. Norton, Deborah A. Dahl, Li Li, Katharine...