Method for extracting commonsense knowledge

  • Authors:
  • Hakki C. Cankaya;Dan Moldovan

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA;University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Knowledge capture
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a semiautomatic method for generating commonsense axioms. The method relies on three metarules that process a few commonsense rules referring to some concept properties. The proposed algorithm searches automatically in Extended WordNet for all concepts that have a given property and generates axioms linking those concepts with the seed commonsense rule. The results show that using 27 commonsense rules, the algorithm generated 2596 axioms of which 98% were validated by human. The generation of commonsense axioms is useful to many natural language applications that require reasoning.