Computer Science – Computation and Language
Scientific paper
1994-11-04
Proceedings of the Fourth ACL Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart, Germany, October 13-15, 1994
Computer Science
Computation and Language
7 pages, 7 Postscript figures, uses aclap.sty
Scientific paper
A computational model for the acquisition of knowledge from encyclopedic texts is described. The model has been implemented in a program, called SNOWY, that reads unedited texts from {\em The World Book Encyclopedia}, and acquires new concepts and conceptual relations about topics dealing with the dietary habits of animals, their classifications and habitats. The program is also able to answer an ample set of questions about the knowledge that it has acquired. This paper describes the essential components of this model, namely semantic interpretation, inferences and representation, and ends with an evaluation of the performance of the program, a sample of the questions that it is able to answer, and its relation to other programs of similar nature.
Gomez Fernando
Hull Richard
Segami Carlos
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