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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.AI2007
Ontology and Formal Semantics - Integration Overdue
Walid S. Saba
In this note we suggest that difficulties encountered in natural language semantics are, for the most part, due to the use of mere symbol manipulation systems that are devoid of an…
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…