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General-purpose reasoning based on knowledge encoded in natural language, requires mapping this knowledge out of its syntax-dependent form into a more general representation that can be more flexibly applied and manipulated. We have created a system that accomplishes this in a variety of cases via mapping English syntactic expressions into predicate and term logic expressions, which can then be cognitively manipulated by tools such as a probabilistic logic engine, an information-theoretic pattern miner and others. Here we illustrate the functionality of this system in the particular case of comparative constructions.
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Lian, R., Solomon, R., Belayneh, A., Goertzel, B., Yu, G., Zhou, C. (2015). From Specialized Syntax to General Logic: The Case of Comparatives. In: Bieger, J., Goertzel, B., Potapov, A. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9205. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21365-1_31
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