Knowledge Representation for Natural Language Processing in Implemented Systems
Papers from the 1994 Fall Symposium
Syed Ali, Program Chair
Technical Report FS-94-04. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
ANALOG: A Logical Language for Natural Language Processing
Syed S. Ali / 1
Understanding Natural Language Instructions: Impact on Representation Formalisms
Barbara Di Eugenio / 12
Concept Based Lexical Selection
Bonnie J. Dorr and Clare R. Voss and Eric Peterson and Michael Kiker / 21
Evaluating Embedded Parsers
Will Fitzgerald and Christopher K. Riesbeck / 31
Description Logics for Natural Language Processing
Enrico Franconi / 37
Representing Space and Time Information in English Narratives
Mark Goldfain / 45
Recognizing Digressive Questions
Susan Haller / 54
Meeting the Interlocking Needs of LF-computation, Deindexing, and Inference: An Organic Approach to General NLU
Chung Hee Hwang and Lenhart K. Schubert / 64
Talking about Time: Temporal Reasoning as a Problem of Natural Language
Lucja Iwanska / 70
A RISC Approach to Reasoning with Natural Language
Robert M. Macgregor / 82
Simplifying Analyses by Fitting the Semantic Representation Closely to Language
David D. McDonald / 90
Acquiring and Representing Background Knowledge for a Natural Language Processing System
Andrei Mikheev and Marc Moens / 97
Knowledge Representation in the TRAINS System
M. Poesio, G. Ferguson, P. Heeman,C. H. Hwang, D. R. Traum / 102
Formalizing English
Stuart C. Shapiro / 112
Mapping Knowledge to Language with LOOM
Manfred Stede and Dietmar Rosner / 120
Robust Chart Parsing with Mildy Inconsistent Feature Structures
Carl Vogel and Robin Cooper / 127
ESK: An Events and States Knowledge Base
Greg Whittemore and John Hicks / 137
Parsing with Constructions
Wlodek Zadrozny / 147
A Glimpse of NKRL, the "Narrative Knowledge Representation Language"
Gian Piero Zarri / 156