This paper presents a computational method for analyzing Gricean constraints for the purpose of evaluating text coherence. Our system consists of a knowledge base constructed on top of WordNet, an inference engine that establishes discourse semantic paths between the input concepts and a mechanism of relating them to the context. Grice's maxims provide conditions to test coherence, while the se...

Sanda M. Harabagiu Dan I. Moldovan University of Southern California Southern Methodist University Los Angeles, CA 90089-2562 Dallas, Texas 75275-0122 [email protected] [email protected] Abstract This paper introduces a system intended for question answering based on abductive inference. The system uses a large knowledge base structured around WordNet. Texts and questions are uniformly proce...

Abstract Analyses of species functional traits are suitable to better understand the coexistence in a given environment. Trait information can be applied investigate diversity patterns along environmental gradients and subsequently predict mitigate threats associated with climate change land use. Species used calculate community trait means, which related gradients. However, while provide insig...

Discourse comprehension processes attempt to produce an elaborate and well-connected representation in the reader's mind. A common network of regions including the angular gyrus, posterior cingulate, and dorsal frontal cortex appears to be involved in constructing coherent representations in a variety of tasks including social cognition tasks, narrative comprehension, and expository text compre...

Proof presentation systems and, in some more general context, many natural language generation systems suffer from a crucial problem: they present too much information explicitly which the intended audience could more naturally infer from a less detailed text. Moreover, proofs in mathematical textbooks make extensive use of building chains of inferences in specialized notations, which is not su...

One of the growing needs of information extraction (IE) from text is that the IE system must be able to perform enriched inferences in order to discover and extract information. We argue that one reason for the current limitation of the approaches that use semantics for that is that they are based on ontologies that express the characteristics of things represented by names, and seek to draw in...

Description EXCITEMENT is a 3-year research project (1/2012-12/2014) funded by the European Commission under FP7. The project consortium includes NICE Systems LTD (Israel) as coordinator, four academic partners, University of Bar Ilan (Israel), DFKI (Germany), FBK (Italy), University of Heidelberg (Germany), and two industrial partners, Almawave S.R.L. (Italy) and OMQ GmbH (Germany). The main t...

Problems in reading comprehension are usually identified when the information obtained is incongruent with text. Consequently, a strategy made to support ability. This study was aimed determine impact of ability on students SMP Pos Keadilan Peduli Ummah (Henceforth called PKPU) and their responses implementation fix-up options strategy. It focused improving by identifying main idea, summarizing...

People reliably and automatically make personality inferences from facial appearance despite little evidence for their accuracy. Although such inferences are highly inter-correlated, research has traditionally focused on studying specific traits such as trustworthiness. We advocate an alternative, data-driven approach to identify and model the structure of face evaluation. Initial findings indi...