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  <Title>NKRL, a Knowledge Representation Language for Narrative Natural Language Processing</Title>
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5. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Possible, general advantages of NKRL with respect to other formalisms that also claim to be able to represent extensive chunks of semantics, see, e.g., (Lehmann, 1992), are at least the following : * The addition of a &amp;quot;taxonomy of events&amp;quot; to the traditional &amp;quot;taxonomy of concepts&amp;quot; : often, &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; ontologies elude in fact lhe problem of representing how the concepts interact with each other in the context of real-life events. Recently, Park (Park, 1995) has prcsemed a language which provides a set of ontological primitives to be used to model the dynamic aspects (&amp;quot;events&amp;quot;) of a domain, llowever, Park's system seems to be a very &amp;quot;young&amp;quot; onc, and it lacks of tools for dcscribing essential narrative features like the relationships betwecn events, the temporal information, etc.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The presence of a catalogue of standard, basic templates, which can be considered as part and parcel of the definition of the language. This implies that : i) a system-builder does not have to create himself the slrnctural knowledge needed to describe the events proper to a (sufficiently) large class of m~afive documents ; ii) it becomes easier to secure the reproduction and the sharing of previous results.</Paragraph>
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