Natural Language Processing: A Tutorial. Revision

Abstract

This report is an introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) research, the subfield of Artificial Intelligence (AI) attempting to produce computer programs capable of communicating with humans in their own language (English, for instance). Definitions of AI terminology relative to NLP and an overview of Keyword, syntactic, and semantic parsing technologies are included. This report is an updated version of the RADC In-House TR-86-110, 'Natural Language Processing: A Tutorial,' by the same author. Keywords: Natural language processing; Augmentent transition network; Parsing; ATN; Grammars; Artificial intelligence; Conceptual dependency theory; Semantic network; Definite clause grammar.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA219096

Entities

People

  • Sharon M. Walter

Organizations

  • Rome Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Automata Theory
  • Cognition
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Grammars
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Machine Translation
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation