Querying Natural Logic Knowledge Bases

Troels Andreasen, Henrik Bulskov, Per Anker Jensen, Jørgen Fischer Nilsson

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Abstract

This paper describes the principles of a system applying natural logic as a knowledge base language. Natural logics are regimented fragments of natural language employing high level inference rules. We advocate the use of natural logic for knowledge bases dealing with querying of classes in ontologies and classrelationships such as are common in life-science descriptions. The paper adopts a version of natural logic with recursive restrictive clauses such as relative clauses and adnominal prepositional phrases. It includes passive as well as active voice sentences. We outline a prototype for partial translation of natural language into natural logic, featuring further querying and conceptual path finding in natural logic knowledge bases
Original languageEnglish
Publication date24 Nov 2017
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Nov 2017
Event9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Madeira, Portugal
Duration: 1 Nov 20173 Nov 2017
Conference number: 9
https://keod.scitevents.org/?y=2017

Conference

Conference9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
Number9
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityMadeira
Period01/11/201703/11/2017
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Keywords

  • Formal Ontologi
  • From Natural Language to Natural Log
  • Path finding in Knowledge Bas
  • s, Deductive Querying of Natural-logic Knowledge Base
  • s, Logical Knowledge bases in Bio-informatics and Medici

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