FACT CORRELATION EXPERIMENTATION,
Abstract
The report covers several facets of an experimental program to develop and test techniques to the realization of fact correlation capability. Primarily, these techniques are linguistically oriented and particularly are concerned with paragraph analysis, the ability to reorganize natural language text in a meaningful way using automatic and semiautomatic methods. Non-linguistic approaches based on vocabulary manipulation were also investigated to a limited extent. The rationale, development, and implementation of techniques are described in some detail. The test vehicle for evaluating these techniques measures their performance in reassembling previously segmented documents. To provide data for the specification of the techniques a sample of scientific documents was prepared for machine processing. A similar sample containing documents matching those in the analysis sample is available for testing the ability of the techniques to reassemble documents. Computer programs representing a document reassembly system to test the linguistic techniques were written in the COMIT programming language for the IBM 7090 computer. Programs for document reassembly to test other techniques were implemented on the RCA 301 computer. Each of these systems is described in detail. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0603697
Entities
People
- D. E. Rogers
- G. H. Woolley
- N. H. Hardwick
- S. N. Jacobson