Research in Natural Language Understanding

Abstract

One of the significant features of KLONE as a representation language is its facility for expressing structural interrelations among the conceptual subparts of an object, activity, or relationship. These interrelations are expressed as a set of 'parameterized' relational and functional Concepts grouped together into structures called Structural Descriptions (SDs). Our abstract description of KLONE has included SDs from the beginning (see (Brachman, 1978) and (Woods and Brachman, 1978)). In this quarter we have completed the design and coding of a set of INTER-LISP functions to support their use in our language understanding system. This report presents the set of functions available to build, mainpulate, query, and remove SDs. First we shall discuss SD structure and its relation to Concept structure, highlighting new features; then we shall present the complete set of functions with brief descriptions of their parameters, values, and operation.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 30, 1978
Accession Number
ADA069608

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