Integration of World Knowledge for Natural Language Understanding

• Main Author: Ovchinnikova, Ekaterina (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : Atlantis Press, 2012.
• Series: Atlantis Thinking Machines, 3
• Subjects: Computer science.; Mathematical logic.; Computers.; Artificial intelligence.; Text processing (Computer science).; Computational linguistics.; Computer Science.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Document Preparation and Text Processing.; Computing Methodologies.

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 i...

Table of 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.