Finding Subsumers for Natural Language Presentation

Chris Mellish; Jeff Z Pan

Finding Subsumers for Natural Language Presentation

Chris Mellish, Jeff Z Pan

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This work is motivated by the task of describing in natural language a concept defined in an OWL DL ontology. However, rather than focussing on linguistic issues, we address the question of how to support natural language presentation with inference. We introduce a new non-standard DL reasoning problem, that of finding subsumers of a concept that are suitable for natural language presentation. We present a solution that works by enumerating successively more complex concepts in the limited language ALEN. Although the search space is formidable, specific optimisations that take into account characteristics of natural language enable it to be tamed. Our initial experiments show that the approach may be quite feasible in practice.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Description Logics
Editors	Bijan Parsia, Ulrike Sattler, David Toman
Publisher	CEUR-WS.org
Pages	127-134
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 23 Jun 2006
Event	2006 International Workshop on Description Logics - Lake District, United Kingdom Duration: 30 May 2006 → 1 Jun 2006 http://dl.kr.org/dl2006/

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Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	CEUR-WS.org
Volume	189
ISSN (Electronic)	1613-0073

Conference

Conference	2006 International Workshop on Description Logics
Abbreviated title	DL 2006
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Lake District
Period	30/05/06 → 1/06/06
Internet address	http://dl.kr.org/dl2006/

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Mellish, C & Pan, JZ 2006, Finding Subsumers for Natural Language Presentation. in B Parsia, U Sattler & D Toman (eds), Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Description Logics. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 189, CEUR-WS.org, pp. 127-134, 2006 International Workshop on Description Logics
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