A New Approach to Text Understanding

Abstract

This paper first briefly describes the architecture of PLUM, BBN's text processing system, and then reports on some experiments evaluating the effectiveness of the design at the component level. Three features are unusual in PLUM's architecture: a domain independent deterministic parser, processing of (the resulting) fragments at the semantic and discourse level, and probabilistic models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA458079

Entities

People

  • Damaris Ayuso
  • Heidi Fox
  • Ralph Weischedel
  • Robert Ingria
  • Sean Boisen

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Ambiguity
  • Attachment
  • Curve Fitting
  • El Salvador
  • Governments
  • Grammars
  • Hispanics
  • Information Operations
  • Language
  • Latin America
  • Natural Languages
  • Recognition
  • Template Patterns
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States Government
  • Ussr

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Systems Analysis and Design