Natural Language Sourcebook

Abstract

The Natural Language Sourcebook was a research component in the development of the Artificial Intelligence Measurement System (AIMS). The Sourcebook is a compilation on 197 processing problems addressed or handled by intelligent computer systems. The problems, culled from the literature in artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and cognitive psychology, have been classified into a scheme with an artificial intelligence bent and cross-referenced to companion schemes one with a linguistic and one with a cognitive psychological perspective on the type of issues reflected in the problems. Each entry in the Sourcebook, called and exemplar, consists of (1) one or more sentences, a fragment of dialogue or a piece of text which illustrates a conceptual issue, (2) a reference, and (3) a discussion of the problem a system might have in understanding the example. An electronic version of the Sourcebook database was developed in a Hypercard environment to facilitate use of the multiple classification schemes (Herl, September 1990). The Hypercard version of the Sourcebook is accompanied by a user's manual (Herl, August 1990).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA233005

Entities

People

  • Eva Baker
  • Frances Butler
  • Michael Dyer
  • Patricia Mutch
  • Walter Read

Organizations

  • University of California, Los Angeles

Tags

Communities of Interest

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  • Biomedical
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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Birds
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Grammars
  • Judgment
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • Psychology

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business Analytics

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation
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