Research in Natural Language Understanding

Abstract

This report describes a natural language understanding system based on a taxonomic knowledge representation system. The system makes use of a structured inheritance network, which serves as a taxonomy of sentence types to which semantic interpretation procedures are attached at varying levels of generality. The same taxonomic representaton system is used to represent kinds of 'speech act interpretations' of input utterances and to represent the kinds of actions required in response to those utterances. The context of the system is the intelligent manipulation of graphic displays.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 31, 1979
Accession Number
ADA076420

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  • Ronald J. Brachman

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Command And Control
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Contracts
  • Display Systems
  • Grammars
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Military Research
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Natural Languages
  • New York
  • Recognition
  • Taxonomy

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  • Computational Linguistics