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Integration of World Knowledge for Natural Language Understanding / by Ekaterina Ovchinnikova.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ovchinnikova, Ekaterina, author.
- Series:
- Computer Science (Springer-11645)
- Atlantis thinking machines 1877-3273 ; 3.
- Atlantis Thinking Machines, 1877-3273 ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural language processing (Computer science).
- Artificial intelligence.
- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
- Natural Language Processing (NLP).
- Artificial Intelligence.
- Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.
- Local Subjects:
- Natural Language Processing (NLP).
- Artificial Intelligence.
- Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XVII, 242 pages) : 16 illustrations, 2 illustrations in color.
- Edition:
- First edition 2012.
- Contained In:
- Springer eBooks
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Atlantis Press : Imprint: Atlantis Press, 2012.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- This book concerns non-linguistic knowledge required to perform computational natural language understanding (NLU). The main objective of the book is to show that inference-based NLU has the potential for practical large scale applications. First, an introduction to research areas relevant for NLU is given. We review approaches to linguistic meaning, explore knowledge resources, describe semantic parsers, and compare two main forms of inference: deduction and abduction. In the main part of the book, we propose an integrative knowledge base combining lexical-semantic, ontological, and distributional knowledge. A particular attention is payed to ensuring its consistency. We then design a reasoning procedure able to make use of the large scale knowledge base. We experiment both with a deduction-based NLU system and with an abductive reasoner. For evaluation, we use three different NLU tasks: recognizing textual entailment, semantic role labeling, and interpretation of noun dependencies.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries
- Natural Language Understanding and World Knowledge
- Sources of World Knowledge
- Reasoning for Natural Language Understanding
- Knowledge Base Construction
- Ensuring Consistency
- Abductive Reasoning with the Integrative Knowledge Base
- Evaluation
- Conclusion.
- Other Format:
- Printed edition:
- ISBN:
- 978-94-91216-53-4
- 9789491216534
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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