Integrating knowledge acquisition and language acquisition

摘要

Very large knowledge bases constitute an important step for artificial intelligence and will have significant effects on the field of natural language processing. This paper describes LUKE, a tool that allows a knowledge base builder to create an English language interface by associating words and phrases with knowledge base entities. The philosophy behind LUKE is that knowledge about language is built up at the same time as knowledge about the world. LUKE assumes no linguistic expertise on the part of the user—that expertise is built directly into the tool itself. LUKE draws its power from a large set of heuristics about how words are typically used to describe the world.