Political texts on the Web, documenting laws and policies and the process leading to them, are of key importance to government, industry, and every individual citizen. Yet access to such texts is difficult due to the ever increasing volume and complexity of the content, prompting the need for indexing or annotating them with a common controlled vocabulary or ontology. In this paper, we investig...

In this paper, we first introduce the notion of gloss for ontology engineering purposes. We propose that each vocabulary in an ontology should have a gloss. A gloss basically is an informal description of the meaning of a vocabulary that is supposed to render factual and critical knowledge to understanding a concept, but that is unreasonable or very difficult to formalize and/or articulate form...

This paper presents a rule-based approach to constructing lexical axioms from WordNet verb entries in an expressive semantic representation, Episodic Logic (EL). EL differs from other representations in being syntactically close to natural language and covering phenomena such as generalized quantification, modification, and intensionality while still allowing highly effective inference. The pre...

Abstract In his study of Arabic phonetics, Asbāb ḥudūṯ al-ḥurūf (The Causes the Genesis Consonants), Ibn Sīnā briefly surveys some speech sounds found in languages other than Arabic, among them one particular to Khwarizmian, an Iranian language attested primarily glosses manuscripts 13th century. This attempts elucidate sound describes both through reference own system phonetic terminology and ...