Workshop on Semantics for Textual Inference

Information

  • NSF Award
  • 1064068
Owner
  • Award Id
    1064068
  • Award Effective Date
    5/15/2011 - 13 years ago
  • Award Expiration Date
    10/31/2013 - 11 years ago
  • Award Amount
    $ 15,830.00
  • Award Instrument
    Standard Grant

Workshop on Semantics for Textual Inference

Although computers can help us find documents about various topics and even answer a great number of factual questions -- just consider IBM's Watson -- they are still far from showing a human-like capability to reason on the basis of natural language statements. This workshop aims at improving these capabilities by concentrating on a manageable step in the process: figuring out how to have a computer make inferences on the basis of textual input. For instance if the system is given two sentences, can it figure out whether one implies the other or whether one contradicts the other? Or whether they have nothing to do with each other? <br/><br/>Building systems that can match this performance requires the collaboration of researchers in computational natural language understanding and semanticists. It moreover requires a form of semantics that is appropriate to this task, which, unfortunately, is not the form practiced by most academic semanticists at the moment. This workshop intends to improve the collaboration between the computational community and linguistic semanticists as a step to a common framework for natural language based reasoning.

  • Program Officer
    William J. Badecker
  • Min Amd Letter Date
    5/13/2011 - 13 years ago
  • Max Amd Letter Date
    5/13/2011 - 13 years ago
  • ARRA Amount

Institutions

  • Name
    Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
  • City
    Palo Alto
  • State
    CA
  • Country
    United States
  • Address
    3333 Coyote Hill Road
  • Postal Code
    943041314
  • Phone Number
    6508124055

Investigators

  • First Name
    Annie
  • Last Name
    Zaenen
  • Email Address
    azaenen@stanford.edu
  • Start Date
    5/13/2011 12:00:00 AM
  • First Name
    Cleo
  • Last Name
    Condoravdi
  • Email Address
    cleoc@stanford.edu
  • Start Date
    5/13/2011 12:00:00 AM

Program Element

  • Text
    LINGUISTICS
  • Code
    1311

Program Reference

  • Text
    LINGUISTICS
  • Code
    1311
  • Text
    CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS
  • Code
    7556
  • Text
    SCIENCE, MATH, ENG & TECH EDUCATION