Traditional accounts of the semantic interpretation of quantified phrases and its interaction with reference and ellipsis have relied on formal manipulations of logical forms (qua...
Paraphrase recognition is a critical step for natural language interpretation. Accordingly, many NLP applications would benefit from high coverage knowledge bases of paraphrases. ...
Ontologies in current computer science parlance are computer based resources that represent agreed domain semantics. This paper first introduces ontologies in general and subseque...
Marie-Laure Reinberger, Peter Spyns, Walter Daelem...
We propose a novel interpretation of natural-language questions using a modal predicate logic of knowledge. Our approach brings standard model-theoretic and proof-theoretic techniq...
This paper describes a novel approach to the semantic relation detection problem. Instead of relying only on the training instances for a new relation, we leverage the knowledge l...
Chang Wang, James Fan, Aditya Kalyanpur, David Gon...