This paper reports on the preliminary experiment aimed at verification whether extraction of nominal facts corresponding to world knowledge from both structured and unstructured data could be effectively performed and its results used as a source of pragmatic knowledge for coreference resolution in Polish. Being the proof-of-concept only, this approach is work in progress and is intended to be ...

Abs t rac t : The dominant philosophy regarding the formalization of Commonsense Inferencing in the physical domain consists in the exploitation of the "tarskian" scheme axiomatization <-> interpretation borrowed from mathematical logic. The commonsense postulates constitute the axiomatization, and the real world provides the "model" for this axiomatization. The observation of the effective act...

The paper investigates how speakers understand constructions with deverbal nominals, i.e. nominals such as destruction that are morphologically related to verbs. Specifically, given the expression the enemy’s destruction, how do the speakers decide whether the possessive argument is the entity that initiates the action (agent) or the entity that is causally affected by the event (patient)? The ...

The First Law of Geography states, “everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.” Despite the fact that it is to a large degree what makes “spatial special,” the law has never been empirically evaluated on a large, domain-neutral representation of world knowledge. We address the gap in the literature about this critical idea by statistically ex...

In many computer vision applications, machines will need to reason beyond the present, and predict the future. This task is challenging because it requires leveraging extensive commonsense knowledge of the world that is difficult to write down. We believe that a promising resource for efficiently obtaining this knowledge is through the massive amounts of readily available unlabeled video. In th...

Little is known about the content of the major search engines. We present an automatic learning method which trains an ontology with world knowledge of hundreds of different subjects in a three-level taxonomy covering all the documents offered in our university library. We then mine this ontology to find important classification rules, and then use these rules to perform an extensive analysis o...

We investigate the effect of using wordspace models as an approximation of the kind of lexico-semantic and commonsense knowledge needed for coreference resolution of definite descriptions, that is, definite NPs with a common noun as head, for Swedish news text. We contrast a system using semantic knowledge from the word-space models with a semantically ignorant system and another system drawing...

We show in this paper that, on the one hand, named entities can be designated using different denominations and that, on the second hand, names denoting named entities are polysemous. The analysis cannot be limited to reference resolution but should take into account naming strategies, which are mainly based on two linguistic operations: synecdoche and metonymy. Lastly, we present a model that ...

From the constructivist perspective, science cannot transcend the domain of experience. Scientific theories are seen as models that help to order and manage that domain. As the experiential field expands, models are replaced by others based on novel conceptual constructs. The paper suggests the substitution of ‘viability’ or ‘functional fit’ for the notions of Truth and objective representation...

In the literature on reasoning on the basis of evidence, two traditions exist: one argument-based, and one based on narratives. Recently, we have proposed a hybrid perspective in which argumentation and narratives are combined. This formalized hybrid theory has been tested in a sense-making software prototype for criminal investigators and decision makers. In the present paper, we elaborate on ...