3 papers
cs.AI2008
Commonsense Knowledge, Ontology and Ordinary Language
Walid S. Saba
Over two decades ago a "quite revolution" overwhelmingly replaced knowledgebased approaches in natural language processing (NLP) by quantitative (e.g., statistical, corpus-based, m…
cs.CL2008
Concerning Olga, the Beautiful Little Street Dancer (Adjectives as Higher-Order Polymorphic Functions)
Walid S. Saba
In this paper we suggest a typed compositional seman-tics for nominal compounds of the form [Adj Noun] that models adjectives as higher-order polymorphic functions, and where types…
cs.AI2007
A Note on Ontology and Ordinary Language
Walid S. Saba
We argue for a compositional semantics grounded in a strongly typed ontology that reflects our commonsense view of the world and the way we talk about it. Assuming such a structure…