Constructing a semantic concept hierarchy covers only part of the problem in building any knowledgebased natural language processing (NLP) system: Language understanding requires mapping from syntactic structures into conceptual (i.e. interlingua) representation (henceforth verb-argument mapping), while language generation requires the inverse mapping. Jacobs [13] proposed a solution in which h...

logical complexity into simple, colourful diagrams. When used with a touch-sensitive screen such as the SMART Board pictured above, the argument maps become manipulable in a very direct sense. Photo: Michael Silver. This suggests that something else is the key difference between the Reason! approach and traditional approaches. Our hunch at this stage is that it is argument mapping. Exercises co...

One form of analogical argument proceeds by comparing a disputed case (the target) with an agreed upon case (the source) to try to resolve the dispute. There is a variation on the preceding form of argument that has not been identified. This variation involves multiple sources, and it requires that the sources be combined or blended for the argument to work. Arguments supporting the Triple Cont...

Unlike English, Chinese sentences do not have a strict syntactic structure and ellipsis is a common phenomenon, which weaken the effectiveness of syntactic structure in argument extraction. In Chinese event extraction, lots of arguments cannot be extracted from the sentence successfully, because of the loose connection between the nominal trigger and its arguments. This paper brings forward a n...

WordNet is a useful resource for lexical inference in applications. Inference over predicates, however, often requires a change in argument positions, which is not specified in WordNet. We propose a novel framework for augmenting WordNet-based inferences over predicates with corresponding argument mappings. We further present a concrete implementation of this framework, which yields substantial...

predicates are words or groups of words which are considered as the most important semantic elements of the sentence. following manouilidou, almeida, schwartz and nair, this research investigates the nature of verb disorder in persian alzheimer patients. to this end, the property of thematic role assignment by three kinds of predicates has been focused upon. the first kind of predicates include...

Abstract argument frameworks have been used for various applications within multi-agent systems, including reasoning and negotiation. Different argument frameworks make use of different inter-argument relations and semantics to identify some subset of arguments as coherent, yet there is no easy way to map between these frameworks; most commonly, this is done manually according to human intuitio...

This paper aims to demonstrate the connection between argument structures, such as those that are created and manipulated by argument mapping tools, and argumentative dialogues, such as those that form a part of online deliberative processes. Our approach is to use recent advances in argument-based knowledge representation, and to tie these to tools we have developed that support argument mappi...

This paper presents a design pattern for handling argument structure and offers a concrete operationalization of this pattern in Fluid Construction Grammar. Argument structure concerns the mapping between ‘participant structure’ (who did what to whom) and instances of ‘argument realization’ (the linguistic expression of participant structures). This mapping is multilayered and indirect, which p...