Skip to the content of the web site.

CS886 | Issues in Natural Language: Knowledge Representation

Spring 2006


Organizational Meeting
Wednesday May 3 3:00

All course sessions will be held in the AI Lab conference room (DC2306C)
Multiple copies of each text will be available for short-term loan at the DC Library Circulation Desk.

Sessions 1 and 2 Philosophical Foundations

Tuesday May 9 2:00-3:30
Wednesday May 10 2:00-4:00

John F. Sowa and David Dietz
Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations
Course Technology, 1999

DC Library short-term loan call number: UWD 1557

Chapter 6 "Knowledge Soup"
Group presentations

6.1 Vagueness, Uncertainty, Randomness, and Ignorance
6.2 Limitations of Logic
6.3 Fuzzy Logic
6.4 Nonmonotonic Logic
6.5 Theories, Models, and the World
6.6 Semiotics

Sessions 3 and 4 Philosophical Foundations (continued)

Tuesday May 16 2:00-4:00
Wednesday May 17 2:00-4:00

Chapter 2 The Concept of Ontology

Readings:

a. Sections 2.1, 2.2
b. Sections 2.4, 2.6

Chapter 3 The Concept of Knowledge Representation

Readings:

a. Sections 3.1, 3.2
b. Sections 3.5, 3.6

Sessions 5 and 6
Knowledge Representation in Artificial Intelligence

Tuesday May 30 2:00-4:00
Wednesday May 31 2:00-4:00

Ronald Brachman and Hector Levesque
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Morgan Kaufmann, 2004

DC Library Short-term loan call number: UWD 1540


Readings:

a. Chapter 8 Object-Oriented Representation
b. Chapter 9 Structured Descriptions (9.1, 9.2, 9.3)

a. Chapter 9 Structured Descriptions (9.4, 9.5)
b. Chapter 10 Inheritance

Sessions 7 and 8 Knowledge Representation in AI (continued)

Tuesday June 13 2:00-3:30
Wednesday June 14 2:00-4:00

Chapter 12 Vagueness, Uncertainty, and Degrees of Belief
Chapter 16 The Tradeoff Between Expressiveness and Tractability

Sessions 9 and 10 Formal Linguistic Representations

Tuesday June 27 2:00-4:00
Wednesday June 28 2:00-4:00

Glenn F. Stillar
Analyzing Everyday Texts: Discourse, Rhetoric, and Social Perspectives
Sage Publications, 1998

Chapter 2
Chapter 3

Sessions 11 and 12 Linguistic and Specialized Ontologies

Tuesday July 11 2:00-3:30
Wednesday July 12 2:00-4:00

RESCHEDULED:
Session 11 WordNet and Morris papers:
Tuesday July 25 2:00-4:00 DC1331

Christiane Fellbaum (editor)
WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database
The MIT Press, 1998

Chapter 1 Nouns in WordNet

Jane Morris and Graeme Hirst.
Non-classical lexical semantic relations.
Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics, Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics., Boston, 2004.

pdfPDF

Jane Morris.
Readers' perceptions versus computers' interpretations of text meaning: The example of lexical cohesion.
Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA), University of New Brunswick, October 2006.

pdfPDF

Session 12: Biomedical Ontologies

Unified Medical Language System
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/
"The Unified Medical Language System: What is it and how to use it?",
Olivier Bodenreider; Jan Willis; and William Hole,
Presentation at: MEDINFO, September 8, 2004; San Francisco, CA.

Selections:

Slides 1-53

PDF

The Gene Ontology.
http://www.geneontology.org

Sessions 13 and 14
Automated Ontology Learning
Final Course Debate

Tuesday July 25 2:00-4:00
Wednesday July 26 2:00-4:00

RESCHEDULED:
Session 13: Automated Ontology Learning
Wednesday July 26 2:00-4:00 DC1316 (NOTE LOCATION)
Session 12/14 Final Course Debate:
"Formal logic is inadequate for representing biomedical knowledge"
Thursday July 27 12:00-1:00 DC1331 (FINAL)

M. Shamsfard and A.A. Barforoush.
The state of the art in ontology learning: A framework for comparison.
The Knowledge Engineering Review, 18(4):293-316, 2003.

pdfPDF

M. Shamsfard and A.A. Bargoroush.
Ontology learning from natural language texts.
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 60(1):17-63, 2004.

pdfPDF