Understanding and Representing Natural Language Meaning.

Abstract

During this contract period, we introduced new representation schemes called event shape diagrams for events and actions; developed mechanisms for explanatory schema acquisition, a process which allows a program to learn new plans and scripts (i.e., action sequences) by reading articles or stories based on the plans or scripts; completed work on computer programs which can understand complex noun phrases (such as water pump pulley adjustment screw thread damage report summary); made substantial progress toward identifying and cataloging cognitive universals.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA114568

Entities

People

  • David L. Waltz

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Image Processing
  • Information Processing
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Natural Languages
  • Perception
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
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