A parser analyzer of empirical design for question-answering

  • Authors:

  • Abraham S. Ben David

  • Affiliations:

  • Xerox Corporation, Rochester, New York

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '77 Proceedings of the June 13-16, 1977, national computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

Over the last three years, work of an empirical nature has been carried out on the design of a natural-language question-answering system. In the present paper, the parser-analyzer of version 3.0 of the QUANSY (QUestion ANswer SYstem) system is discussed. The parser-analyzer is composed of a set of algorithms, each of which is assigned a particular set of tasks. The parser-analyzer operates in a multihypothesis structure. The whole system is programmed in FORTRAN and the sample run times are for a run on a CDC 6400.