@conference {OvchinnikovaEtAlforthcomingIWCS2011:AbductiveReasoningLargeKB,
	title = {Abductive Reasoning with a Large Knowledge Base for Discourse Processing},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of IWCS 2011},
	year = {Submitted},
	abstract = {This paper presents a discourse processing framework based on weighted abduction. We elaborate on ideas described in Hobbs et al. (1993) and implement the abductive inference procedure in a system called Mini-TACITUS. Particular attention is paid to constructing a large and reliable knowledge base for supporting inferences. For this purpose we exploit such lexical-semantic resources as WordNet and FrameNet. We test the proposed procedure and the obtained knowledge base on the Recognizing Textual Entailment task using the data sets from the RTE-2 challenge for evaluation. In addition, we provide an evaluation of the semantic role labeling produced by the system taking the Frame-Annotated Corpus for Textual Entailment as a gold standard.},
	author = {Ekaterina Ovchinnikova and Niloofar Montazeri and Theodore Alexandrov and Jerry R. Hobbs and Michael C. McCord and Rutu Mulkar-Mehta}
}
