A DICTIONARY STRUCTURE FOR USE WITH AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE PREPROCESSOR TO A COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
Abstract
The paper describes the formation of a dictionary list structure which can be used by an English language translator to enable natural language man-machine conversation directed towards the retrieval of information from a data bank. The hierarchical structure of the letters in a word and the placement of word attributes in this structure are discussed. A computer program, which accepts as input an English language sentence and processes this sentence in conjunction with the dictionary list structure to obtain the attributes of the individual words, is described. The incorporation of this dictionary structure into a complete natural language information retrieval system is also discussed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0710363
Entities
People
- Charles T. Schmidt
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School