Research and Development in Natural Language Understanding as Part of the Strategic Computing Program

Abstract

This report includes a collection of reprints reporting natural language research. The problem of acquiring linguistic knowledge is the chief obstacle to widespread use of natural language technology. Chapter 1 and 4 report results of five to tenfold increase in our productivity in moving the Janus and Parlance natural language shells to new application domains. The ability of natural language systems to cooperatively handle novel, errorful, or incomplete forms is also critical; chapter 3 and 5 report new techniques for intelligently and graceful respond to such forms. Chapter 2 reports on an implementation of a discourse module for understanding definite reference.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA214611

Entities

People

  • Damaris Ayuso
  • Lance Ramshaw
  • Madeleine Bates
  • Marie Meteer
  • Robert Bobrow

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Algorithms
  • Application Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Employment
  • Expert Systems
  • Heuristic Methods
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Relational Databases

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Robotics and Automation.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.