Resolving Ambiguity
nProfessors often meet with students
nJane is probably a student
nProfessors like to explain
n“She” is probably Prof. Sarah
Attribute values
Link types
Object identity
[Goldman & Charniak, Pasula & Russell]
Professor Sarah met Jane.
She explained the hole in her proof.
Probabilistic reasoning about objects, their attributes,
and the relationships between them
What kind of reasoning did we use to disambiguate this sentence?  We are just using commonsense patterns about objects, their properties, and the links between them.  But it is all probabilistic.  If we had an appropriate probabilistic relational knowledge base, perhaps we could use web of influence reasoning to reach similar conclusions.