Some Meaning Procedures of Ontological Semantics

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004)

Abstract

This paper presents implemented algorithms for interpreting the meaning of certain context-dependent lexical items within the Ontological Semantic text processing environment. We discuss the form, function and rationale behind three meaning proce-dures, all of which are, in a certain sense, numerically oriented. We show that only a knowledge-rich processing system can fully interpret such entities, and that an integrated combination of static resources and processors provides sufficient foundation for high-quality text interpretation.