INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH. THE DEACON PROJECT.

Abstract

This report discusses progress in developing a general theory of information related to natural language. This theory underlies the work on computer systems directly accessed and controlled by a lightly constrained natural language (English). Information is viewed as a composite of the quantity of facts (observations) and the quality of the structure (language) imposed on those facts to give them relevance, the view of language is the structural portion of context suggested that computer-based systems capable of responding to change could use as organizing clues the syntactic rules of the language and their corresponding semantic transformations. To facilitate computer implementation of data structures capable of being so internally manipulated and organized, plex structures were used and a programming language (microplex) developed. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1965
Accession Number
AD0474273

Entities

Organizations

  • General Electric

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Composite Materials
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Natural Languages
  • Observation
  • Programming Languages

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Theoretical Analysis.