A knowledge-based approach to language processing: a progress report

Authors:
Robert Wilensky
Affiliations:
Computer Science Division, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Venue:
IJCAI'81 Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Year:
1981

Citing 6
Cited 1

Conceptual Information Processing

Conceptual Information Processing
An integrated understander

Computational Linguistics
Syntactic processing and functional sentence perspective

TINLAP '75 Proceedings of the 1975 workshop on Theoretical issues in natural language processing
The phrasal lexicon

TINLAP '75 Proceedings of the 1975 workshop on Theoretical issues in natural language processing
PHRAN: a knowledge-based natural language understander

ACL '80 Proceedings of the 18th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
INGRES: a relational data base system

AFIPS '75 Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1975, national computer conference and exposition

Conceptual graphs for the analysis and generation of sentences

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

We present a model of natural language use meant to encompass the language-specific aspects of understanding and production. The model is motivated by the pervasiveness of nongenerative language, by the desirability of a language analyzer ana a language production mechanism to share their knowledge, and the advantages of knowledge engineering features such as ease of extention and modification. This model has been used as the basis for PHRAN, a language analyzer, and PHRED, a language production mechanism. We have implemented both these systems using a common knowledge base; we have produced versions of PHRAN that understand Spanish and Chinese with only changing the knowledge base and not modifying the program; and we have implemented PHRAN using the query language of a conventional relational data base system, and compared the performance of this system to a conventional LISP implementation.