Natural Language Processing Utilizing Logical Tree Structures

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a data processing system, causes the data processing system to:

• receive a natural language content upon which a reasoning operation is to be performed;
• generate a first parse representation of the natural language content by performing natural language processing on the natural language content;
• generate a logical parse of the first parse by identifying latent logical operators within the first parse indicative of logical relationships between elements of the natural language content;
• and
• perform a reasoning operation on the logical parse to generate a knowledge output indicative of knowledge associated with one or more of the logical relationships between elements of the natural language content.

An apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• receive a natural language content upon which a reasoning operation is to be performed;
• generate a first parse representation of the natural language content by performing natural language processing on the natural language content;
• generate a logical parse of the first parse by identifying latent logical operators within the first parse indicative of logical relationships between elements of the natural language content;
• and
• perform a reasoning operation on the logical parse to generate a knowledge output indicative of knowledge associated with one or more of the logical relationships between elements of the natural language content.