id: 06015149
dt: b
an: 06015149
au: Ovchinnikova, Ekaterina
ti: Integration of world knowledge for natural language understanding.
so: Atlantis Thinking Machines 3. Amsterdam: Atlantis Press (ISBN
    978-94-91216-52-7/hbk; 978-94-91216-53-4/ebook). xvii, 242~p.
    EUR~84.95/net; SFR~113.50; \sterling~76.50; \$~109.00 (2012).
py: 2012
pu: Amsterdam: Atlantis Press
la: EN
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li: doi:10.2991/978-94-91216-53-4
ab: Preliminary review / Publisher’s description: 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.
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