[Attempto] inverse names of relations

Norbert E. Fuchs fuchs at ifi.uzh.ch
Sun Sep 11 14:38:04 CEST 2011


Nagarjuna

Coming back to your original message

> The example I have is: Given "Milk consists of fat, carbohydrates,
> proteins, minerals and water", I should be able to say "Water is a
> part of Milk" as a valid inference. Or if a query is raised "Is water
> a part of Milk?" I expect yes.
> 
> (In some biology books "consists of' and "composed of" are used
> interchangeably.)
> 
> I understood that an if-then construct can be used to tell RACE that a
> relation is inverse.

I wonder how far you got ACE'ifying the example and getting the expected answers to your queries. Please let us know if you encountered any problems.

Regards.

Norbert E. Fuchs
Department of Informatics & Institute of Computational Linguistics
University of Zurich






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