Review: Ontological Semantics by Sergei Nirenburg and Victor Raskin

Ontological semantics

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The Genesis Of A Script For Bankruptcy In Ontological Semantics

This paper describes the creation of a script in the framework of ontological semantics as the formal representation of the complex event BANKRUPTCY. This script for BANKRUPTCY serves as the exemplary basis for a discussion of the general motivations for including scripts in NLP, as well as the discovery process for, and format of, scripts for the purposes of processing coreference and inferenc...

New Developments in Ontological Semantics

In this paper we discuss ongoing activity within the approach to natural language processing known as ontological semantics, as defined in Nirenburg and Raskin (forthcoming). After a brief discussion of the principal tenets on which this approach is built, and a revision of extant implementations that have led toward its present form, we concentrate on some specific aspects that are key to the ...

Slavic as Testing Grounds for a Linguistic Knowledge Elicitation System

The How’s And` Why’s of Ontological Semantics

This paper attempts, out of necessity, to reach two different audiences—never such a great idea! For those familiar with the ontological semantic approach, it focuses, in Section 3, on the crucial issue of expanding ontological semantic resources to new specific domains, which is a decisive factor for spreading the use of the ontological semantic legacy resources and their enrichment and improv...