Learning by Reading: Normalizing Complex Linguistic Structures onto a Knowledge Representation

No. 7: Learning by Reading and Learning to Read

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Papers from the 2009 AAAI Spring Symposium

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To make learning by reading easier, one strategy is to map language that is read onto a normalized knowledge representation. The normalization maps alternative expressions of the same content onto essentially identical representations. This brief position paper illustrates the power of this approach in PARC's Bridge system through examples of textual inference.