Category 1 – General Domain This is a system in the geology domain. Main General Function PROSPECTOR is an expert system designed for decision-making problems in mineral exploration. It aids geologists in evaluating the favorability of an exploration site or region for occurrences of ore deposits of particular types. Once a site has been identified, PROSPECTOR can also be used for drilling-site...

Museums traditionally rely on trained cataloging professionals to create metadata for their collections. While this authoritative information is well-grounded, it is brief and limited in its description of the museum objects since the human cataloging task is timeconsuming and expensive. New techniques provide an opportunity to expand subject-oriented explanatory metadata. Social tags and lingu...

The goal of the present paper is to report on the on-going research for applying psycholinguistic resources to building a WordNet-like lexicon of the Russian language. We are to survey different kinds of the linguistic data that can be extracted from a Word Association Thesaurus, a resource representing the results of a largescaled free association test. In addition, we will give a comparison o...

This paper deals with the problem of structuring adjectives in a wordnet. We will present several methods of dealing with this problem based on the usage of different language resources: frequency lists, text corpora, word association norms, and explanatory dictionaries. The work has been developed within the framework of the RussNet project aiming at building a wordnet for Russian. Three types...

We propose that qualitative physics can provide an important component of natural language semantics. Specifically, we describe how qualitative process theory can be recast in terms of frame semantics, as used in the Berkeley FrameNet project. This reformulation is important because it could allow the techniques of qualitative reasoning to be harnessed for natural language understanding and it ...