%0 Journal Article %T NLog-like Inference and Commonsense Reasoning %A Schubert, Lenhart %J Linguistic Issues in Language Technology %D 2014 %V 9 %I CSLI Publications %F schubert-2014-nlog %X Recent implementations of Natural Logic (NLog) have shown that NLog provides a quite direct means of going from sentences in ordinary language to many of the obvious entailments of those sentences. We show here that Episodic Logic (EL) and its Epilog implementation are well-adapted to capturing NLog-like inferences, but beyond that, also support inferences that require a combination of lexical knowledge and world knowledge. However, broad language understanding and commonsense reasoning are still thwarted by the “knowledge acquisition bottleneck”, and we summarize some of our ongoing and contemplated attacks on that persistent difficulty. %U https://aclanthology.org/2014.lilt-9.9