Natural Language Processing.

Abstract

The subject of Natural Language Processing can be considered in both broad and narrow senses. In the broad sense, it covers processing issues at all levels of natural language understanding, including speech recognition, syntactic and semantic analysis of sentences, reference to the discourse context (including anaphora, inference of referents, and more extended relations of discourse coherence and narrative structure), conversational inference and implicature, and discourse planning and generation. In the narrower sense, it covers the syntactic and semantic processing sentences to deliver semantic objects suitable for referring, inferring, and the like. Of course, the results of inference and reference may under some circumstances play a part in processing in the narrow sense. But the processes that are characteristic of these other modules are not the primary concern.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA290396

Entities

People

  • Mark Steedman

Organizations

  • University of Pennsylvania

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automata
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Grammars
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Markov Models
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Natural Languages

Fields of Study

  • Linguistics

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation