In this paper we introduce an empirical approach to the semantic interpretation of superlative adjectives. We present a corpus annotated for superlatives and propose an interpretation algorithm that uses a wide-coverage parser and produces semantic representations. We achieve Fscores between 0.84 and 0.91 for detecting attributive superlatives and an accuracy in the range of 0.69–0.84 for deter...

This paper presents a new approach to the issue of assuring rule-based systems (RBS) correctness. The principal idea is that verification should be performed on-line, incrementally, during system design. It allows for early detection and handling of knowledge base anomalies and inconsistencies by incorporating a formal Prolog-based analysis of RBS in the design phase. A formal concept of a desi...

Application functionality in business-to-business marketplaces today covers a smaller range of a company's overall procurement activities. Not every product or service can be acquired using catalogs, auctions or tenders. With the growing number of market transactions to be supported electronically, we expect a range of applications that will handle other forms of transactions. We hold that to a...

Mythili Menon and Roumyana Pancheva; University of Southern California We provide evidence for the ambiguity in color terms (e.g., green) between a gradable and nongradable reading, as proposed in [5]. The evidence comes from color terms in Malayalam. Expressions for color exhibit different morphosyntactic behavior in attributive and predicative positions, and in comparatives, as opposed to oth...

This article considers a critical and experimental approach on the attributive and qualitative AI data modeling and data retrieval in computational probabilistic reasoning. The mathematical correlation of X≈Y in the d=dx/dy differentiations and its point based locations and matrix based predictions in Markov Models, Rete’s Algorithms and Bayesian fields, with the further development of non-line...