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...
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...
—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...
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...
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...