This paper describes a method for inducing a domain theory from a corpus of parsed sentences by means of ILP techniques. A ‘domain theory’ in the current context stands for a collection of facts and generalisations or rules which describe entities and relations between entities within a domain of interest. As language users, we implicitly draw on such theories in various disambiguation tasks, s...

We investigated how readers strategically infer context-appropriate information on the basis of the presented text and their world knowledge during passage reading. In the main experimental condition, participants were instructed to read short passages and to predict the development of the situation described in each passage during reading. To accomplish this task, we assumed that participants ...

We explore the problem of translating a large set of propo-sitional formulae (deening the transition behavior of a statechart) into natural language in a way that is both sound and complete. The dii-culty is not so much obtaining a literal translation of the logical content as it is avoiding interference from pragmatic eeects|inferences that are based on a readers expectations about the way the...

Explicitly conveyed knowledge represents only a portion of the information communicated by a text snippet. Automated mechanisms for deriving explicit information exist; however, the implicit assumptions and default inferences that capture our intuitions about a normal interpretation of a communication remain hidden for automated systems, despite the communication participants’ ease of grasping ...

The LISA model of analogical reasoning (Hummel & Holyoak, 1997) assumes that mapping is performed incrementally within limited-capacity working memory, and that processing is guided by principles of text coherence. Predictions of the model derived by computer simulations were tested in four experiments, using both semantically-impoverished structural analogs and semantically-rich story analogs....

MOTIVATION Annotated reference corpora play an important role in biomedical information extraction. A semantic annotation of the natural language texts in these reference corpora using formal ontologies is challenging due to the inherent ambiguity of natural language. The provision of formal definitions and axioms for semantic annotations offers the means for ensuring consistency as well as ena...