These syntactic properties and domain concepts are then processed without muc h attention being paid to their physical location in the text . In KBIRD, on the other hand, everything that is manipulated, even concepts that have been asserted, are explicitly associated with regions of text . A key capability that the deeper linguistic processing of Pundit can provide is the determination o f the grammatical and thematic roles of expressions in a text . Thus, it can determine that in the sentence "Castellar is the second mayor that has been murdered in Colombia in the last 3 days" that Castellar is the subject of the copular verb in the matrix clause, and that Castellar should inherit properties asserted of the predicate nominal argument. It can also recognize the passive voice of the relativ...

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