Corega Tabs: Incremental Semantic Composition
Kerstin Bücher, Günther Görz, Bernd Ludwig · University of Regensburg Publication Server (University of Regensburg) · 2002
In parsing natural language, incremental semantics composition is one of the most prominent issues. In the past, numerous approaches have been developed for assigning meaning to noun and verbal phrases and their complements and modifiers. Often, their inferential power is too low for practical applications or the expressiveness of the representation language leads to intractable inference procedures. As an answer to these problems, we discuss an approach that relies on Description Logics for handling this class of semantics construction. We show how a semantic knowledge base can be setup. We exploit the equivalence between Discourse Representation Structures limited to the expressiveness of ALC and ABoxes for validating DRS with respect to a given knowledge base.