Transition network grammars for natural language analysis
Communications of the ACM
The teachable language comprehender: a simulation program and theory of language
Communications of the ACM
Understanding Natural Language
Understanding Natural Language
Active semantic networks as a model of human memory
IJCAI'73 Proceedings of the 3rd international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
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An intelligent program which accepts natural language queries can allow anon-technical user to easily obtain information from a large non-uniform data base. This paper discusses the design of a program which will tolerate a wide variety of requests including ones with pronouns and referential phrases. The system embodies a certain amount of common sense, so that for example, it "knows when it does or does not understand a particular request and it can bypass actual data base search in answering unreasonable requests. The system is conceptually simple and could be easily adapted to other data bases.