Automatically generating Conceptual Graphs (CGs) [1] from natural language sentences is a difficult task in using CG as a semantic (knowledge) representation language for natural
language information source. However, up to now only few approaches have been proposed for this task and most of them either
are highly dependent on one domain or use manual rules. In this paper, we propose a machine-learning based approach that can
be trained for different domains and requires almost no manual rules. We adopt a dependency grammar-Link Grammar [2] - for this purpose. The link structures of the grammar are very similar to conceptual graphs. Based on the link structure,
through the word-conceptualization, concept-folding, link-folding and relationalization operations, we can train the system
to generate conceptual graphs from domain specific sentences. An implementation system of the method is currently under development
with IBM China Research Lab.
This work is supported by IBM China Research Laboratory.