Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Automated Reasoning
(NLPAR) 2013
Editors: Chitta Baral1and Peter Sch¨uller2
1 Arizona State University, USA
2 Sabanci University, Turkey
Preface
This volume contains the papers presented at NLPAR2013: Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Automated Reasoning 2013 held on September 15, 2013 in A Corunna, Spain.
The NLPAR Workshop received 6 submissions from different international institutions and research communities. Each submission was reviewed by 3 pro- gram committee members. The committee decided to accept 5 papers. The pro- gram also includes 2 invited talks.
The organizing committee wants to thank the Workshop Chair of LPNMR, Marcello Balduccini, and the Program Chairs of LPNMR, Pedro Cabalar and Tran Cao Son, for their support in embedding this workshop into the LPNMR conference organization.
Peter Sch¨uller acknowledges support from Sabanci University. This workshop was managed using EasyChair.
September 15, 2013 A Corunna, Spain
Chitta Baral Peter Sch¨uller
Table of Contents
Some Recent Advances in Answer Set Programming (from the
Perspective of NLP). . . 1 Marcello Balduccini
Three Lessons in Creating a Knowledge Base to Enable Reasoning,
Explanation and Dialog. . . 7 Vinay Chaudhri, Nikhil Dinesh and Daniela Inclezan
Qualitative Analysis of Contemporary Urdu Machine Translation Systems 27 Asad Abdul Malik and Asad Habib
The NL2KR System. . . 37 Chitta Baral, Juraj Dzifcak, Kanchan Kumbhare and Nguyen Vo
A Default Inference Rule Operating Internally to the Grammar Devices. . 48 Christophe Onamb´el´e Manga
BOEMIE: Reasoning-based Information Extraction. . . 60 Georgios Petasis, Ralf M¨oller and Vangelis Karkaletsis
Recognizing Implicit Discourse Relations through Abductive Reasoning
with Large-scale Lexical Knowledge . . . 76 Jun Sugiura, Naoya Inoue and Kentaro Inui
ii
Program Committee
Marcello Balduccini Drexel University Chitta Baral Arizona State University Johan Bos University of Groningen Vinay Chaudhri SRI International Esra Erdem Sabanci University Christian Ferm¨uller TU Wien
Michael Gelfond Texas Tech University
Yuliya Lierler University of Nebraska at Omaha Peter Sch¨uller Sabanci University
iii
