Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Automated Reasoning (NLPAR) 2013 Editors: Chitta Baral1 and Peter Schüller2 1 Arizona State University, USA 2 Sabanci University, Turkey Preface This volume contains the papers presented at NLPAR2013: Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Automated Reasoning 2013 held on September 15, 2013 in A Corunna, Spain. The NLPAR Workshop received 6 submissions from different international institutions and research communities. Each submission was reviewed by 3 pro- gram committee members. The committee decided to accept 5 papers. The pro- gram also includes 2 invited talks. The organizing committee wants to thank the Workshop Chair of LPNMR, Marcello Balduccini, and the Program Chairs of LPNMR, Pedro Cabalar and Tran Cao Son, for their support in embedding this workshop into the LPNMR conference organization. Peter Schüller acknowledges support from Sabanci University. This workshop was managed using EasyChair. September 15, 2013 Chitta Baral A Corunna, Spain Peter Schüller Table of Contents Some Recent Advances in Answer Set Programming (from the Perspective of NLP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Marcello Balduccini Three Lessons in Creating a Knowledge Base to Enable Reasoning, Explanation and Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Vinay Chaudhri, Nikhil Dinesh and Daniela Inclezan Qualitative Analysis of Contemporary Urdu Machine Translation Systems 27 Asad Abdul Malik and Asad Habib The NL2KR System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Chitta Baral, Juraj Dzifcak, Kanchan Kumbhare and Nguyen Vo A Default Inference Rule Operating Internally to the Grammar Devices . . 48 Christophe Onambélé Manga BOEMIE: Reasoning-based Information Extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Georgios Petasis, Ralf Möller and Vangelis Karkaletsis Recognizing Implicit Discourse Relations through Abductive Reasoning with Large-scale Lexical Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Jun Sugiura, Naoya Inoue and Kentaro Inui ii Program Committee Marcello Balduccini Drexel University Chitta Baral Arizona State University Johan Bos University of Groningen Vinay Chaudhri SRI International Esra Erdem Sabanci University Christian Fermüller TU Wien Michael Gelfond Texas Tech University Yuliya Lierler University of Nebraska at Omaha Peter Schüller Sabanci University iii