Reasoning with Dependency Structures and Lexicographic Definitions Using Unit Graphs

Rationale, Concepts, and Current Outcome of the Unit Graphs Framework

The Unit Graphs (UGs) framework is a graph-based knowledge representation (KR) formalism that is designed to allow for the representation, manipulation, query, and reasoning over linguistic knowledge of the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT). This paper introduces the UGs framework, and overviews current published outcomes. It first introduces rationale of thi...

The Unit Graphs Mathematical Framework

We are interested in the choice of a graph-based knowledge representation formalism that would allow for the representation, manipulation, query, and reasoning over linguistic knowledge of the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary (ECD) of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT). We show that neither the semantic web formalisms nor the Conceptual Graphs Formalism are suitable for this task, and we justify...

Ensuring Lexicographic-Positive Data Dependence Graphs in the SIRA Framework

M ODELS by Tong Wang A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Exploiting Linguistic Knowledge in Lexical and Compositional Semantic Models Tong Wang Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2016 A fundamental principle in distributional semantic models is to use similarity in linguistic environment as a proxy for similarity in meaning. Known as the distributional hypothesis, the principle has been successfully app...

Parsing the Dictionary of Modern Literary Russian Language with the Method of SCD Configurations. The Lexicographic Modeling

This paper extends the experience of parsing other five, sensibly different, Romanian, French, and German largest dictionaries, to DMLRL (Dictionary of Modern Literary Russian Language) [18], using the optimal and portable parsing method of SCD (Segmentation-Cohesion-Dependency) configurations [7], [11], [15]. The purpose of the present paper is to elaborate the lexicographic modeling of DMLRL,...