... Web Text Corpus for Natural Language Processing
Vinci Liu and James R. Curran
School of Information Technologies
University of Sydney
NSW 2006, Australia
{vinci,james}@it.usyd.edu.au
Abstract
Web ... gathers information
from the hit counts but does not require the com-
putationally expensive downloading of actual text
for analysis. Unfortunately search engines were
not designed for...
... knowledge
representation for natural language 10
general". Currently, there exist only
approximate solutions to this problem for
example the use of canonical logical forms
(cf. Shieber 88). ... flow of information during
natural language processing (see section 4.1).
An important point during the use of language
is that the Choice of linguistic material is
influence...
... Semantic Information Preprocessing
for Natural Language Interfaces to Databases
Milan Mosny
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, ... LDT was introduced for a sys-
tem, where input is a logical formula, whose predi-
cates approximately correspond to the content words
of the input utterance in natural language (lexical
predicates). ...
predicates). Output is a logical formula, c...
... A Test Environment for Natural Language Understanding Systems
Li Li, Deborah A. Dahl, Lewis M. Norton, Marcia C. Linebarger, Dongdong Chen
Unisys Corporation
2476 Swedesford Road
Malvern, ... Dong.Chen}@unisys.com
Abstract
The Natural Language Understanding Engine
Test Environment (ETE) is a GUI software tool
that aids in the development and maintenance of
large, modular,...
... used for TEXT
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identification
-requests for definitions
attributive
-requests for available information
constituency
-requests for definitions
-requests for available information ...
detailed attributive information is included. For
entities that are very different, only generic
class information is included. A combination of
this information is included...
... (Neo-Fregean Language of
Thought). 2 This is a new logical language that is being
developed to serve as the internal representation medium
in computer agents with natural language capabilities. The
language ... systems, which
we regard for theoretical purposes as thinking organisms,
(Frege referred to his own logical formalism,
Begriffsschrift,
an a "formula language...
... interesting. Language provides a critical test for the
hypothesis that physical symbol systems are adequate to perform all
human cognitive functions. As yet, no adequate system for natural
language ... levels of performance.
Of the various problems that natural language processing has re-
vealed, polysemy is probably the most frustrating. People deal with
polysemy so easily...
... ambiguity
of nominal compounds. For example, the phrase
natural language processing should generate
language +natural and processing +language, while
dynamic information processing is expected ... terms. For
example, " ;natural& quot; is deleted from a query already
containing " ;natural language& quot; because " ;natural& quot;
occurs in many unrelated contexts:...