Analysing English Noun Groups for Their Conceptual Content.

Abstract

An expectation-based system, Noun Group Processor(NGP), for parsing English noun groups into the Conceptual Dependency representation is described. The system is a part of ELI (English Language Interpreter) which is used as the front end to several natural language understanding systems and is capable of handling a wide range of sentences of considerable complexity. NGP processes the input from left to right, one word at a time, using linguistic and world knowledge to find the meaning of a noun group. Dictionary entries for individual words contain much of the program's knowledge. In addition, a limited ability for the handling of slightly incorrect sentences and unknown words is incorporated.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA040951

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  • Anatole V. Gershman

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