A set expression based inheritance system |
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Authors: | Ido Dagan Alon Itai |
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Affiliation: | (1) Computer Science Department, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel |
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Abstract: | This paper describes a new formalism for inheritance systems, based on the formal semantics of set expressions. Using the formalism, it is possible to define new semantic classes by arbitrary set expressions operating on previously defined classes. Thus generalizing bothIS-A links andIS-NOT-A links and adding the set intersection operation. We present an efficient algorithm which follows these definitions to deduce the properties implied by the inheritance network, i.e., the properties of the classes containing a given element. The application which motivated the development of the formalism, namely semantic disambiguation of natural language, is also described. |
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