Theoretical Studies in Natural Language Understanding.

Abstract

This report gives a brief overview of the ONR project in natural language understanding at BBN, and a detailed presentation of a language, JARGON, which was developed under that project. JARGON is a formalized and somewhat stylized subset of natural English designed to serve as a lexical language for a KL-ONE structured inheritance network and to permit experimental investigation of the growth and evolution of a complex knowledge base. The JARGON language has been used to explore the processes of building up and evolving knowledge structures, and has given us several insights into the nature of knowledge representation and acquisition. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 1979
Accession Number
ADA082119

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  • William A. Woods

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  • BBN Technologies

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