Method for extracting commonsense knowledge
Hakki C. Cankaya, DAN I. MOLDOVAN · 2009
This paper presents a semiautomatic method for generating commonsense axioms. The method relies on three metarules that process a few commonsense rules referring to some concept properties. The proposed algorithm searches automatically in Extended WordNet for all concepts that have a given property and generates axioms linking those concepts with the seed commonsense rule. The results show that using 27 commonsense rules, the algorithm generated 2596 axioms of which 98% were validated by human. The generation of commonsense axioms is useful to many natural language applications that require reasoning.