NL Seminar- Abduction and Metaphor
- When:
- Friday, November 16, 2012, 03:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Where:
- 11th Floor Conf. Room (#1135)
- Speaker:
- NL Seminar Jerry Hobbs
- Description:
Abstract:
I will talk about recent progress in implementing an efficient method for doing a type of inferencing called abduction, or inference to the best explanation. I will illustrate its wide applicability to a variety of language interpretation problems. I'll describe our recent work on implementing ontologies, or logical theories of commonsense domains. Then I will show how we are applying all this to the interpretation of metaphors.
