Knowledge Representation Systems Based on Natural Language

Papers from the 1996 Fall Symposium

Lucja Iwanska, Program Cochair

Technical Report FS-96-04. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California

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A Dynamic Lexical Knowledge Base for Natural Language Processing / 1
Caroline Barriere and Fred Popowich

Interpretation: The Relationship Between Language and Ontology / 6
Alistair Campbell and Debra Burhans

Not for Its Own Sake: Knowledge as Byproduct of NLP / 11
William Dolan and Stephen Richardson

Logical Form and Knowledge Representation: Towards a Reconciliation / 20
Enrico Franconi

Why to Base Knowledge Representation Language on Natural Language? / 25
Fernando Gomez

TextNet--A Text-Based Intelligent System / 32
Sanda Barabagiu and Dan Moldovan

Natural Language Is a Representational Language / 44
Lucja Iwanska

Natural Language for Knowledge Acquisition: Learning from Definite Anaphora / 72
Lucja Iwanska and Kellyn Kruger

Vague Utterances and Context Change / 83
Alice Kyburg and Michael Morreau

The Syntax, Semantics and Inference Mechanism in Natural Language / 102
Yunqing Lin

How to use Aristotelian Logic to Formalize Reasonings Expressed in Ordinary Language? / 107
Phillip Peterson

Framing the Donkey: Towards a Unification of Semantic Representations with Knowledge Representations / 121
Len Schubert