Vulcan/TextualMatching

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Logic style matching can limit recall during inference. Here we discuss some examples of the types of fuzzy textual matching that we need to support.


Question: Growth causes the leaves of a plant to become larger.

To propositions:

(growth, causes, the leaves of a plant, to become larger)

1.0 causes(growth, the leaves of a plant, to become larger)

0.9 causes(growth, leaf of a plant, to become larger)

0.8 cause(growth, leaf, to become large)



Answer: The noun growth is the process of something becoming bigger.

To axioms:

Extractions from Open IE

(The noun growth; is; the process of something becoming bigger)

(the process of something; becoming; bigger)

(The noun growth; is the process of; something)



1.0 process_of(noun growth, is the process of, something becoming bigger)

0.8 process_of(growth, something, becoming bigger)

Rules:

process_of(growth, something,