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Natural Intelligence (NI) is a question answering system based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) as the theory of grammar and Conceptual Graphs (CG) for knowledge representation and reasoning. CCG is a lexicalized theory of grammar and very suitable for semantic analysis. Conceptual Graphs is a special kind of semantic network which can express full first-order logic. It aims to address the problem of commonsense reasoning in question answering, by using the state of the art tools such as C&C tools, Cogitant and Open Cyc. C&C tools are used for parsing natural language, Cogitant is used for Conceptual Graph operations, and Open Cyc is used for upper ontology and commonsense handling.
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Güler, F.M., Birturk, A. (2010). Natural Intelligence – Commonsense Question Answering with Conceptual Graphs. In: Croitoru, M., Ferré, S., Lukose, D. (eds) Conceptual Structures: From Information to Intelligence. ICCS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6208. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14197-3_12
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