This paper presents an approach to generating common sense knowledge written in raw English sentences. Instead of using public contributors to feed this source, this system chose to employ expert linguistics decisions by using definitions from English dictionaries. Because the definitions in English dictionaries are not prepared to be transformed into inference rules, some preprocessing steps w...

Bloom ltering is an important technique for space e cient storage of a conservative approximation of a set S. The set stored may have up to some speci ed number of false positive members, but all elements of S are included. In this paper we consider lossy dictionaries that are also allowed to have false negatives , i.e., leave out elements of S. The aim is to maximize the weight of included key...

The main title of this work might be a bit misleading, because it creates the impression that a very wide and general topic will be discussed. The subtitle, however, is much more to the point, since the author specifically investigates English and French monolingual dictionaries in view of certain aspects. The author makes it clear (2001: 210) that she does not want to describe general "influen...