A Distributed Approach for a Robust and Evolving NLP System

  • Authors:
  • João Balsa;José Gabriel Pereira Lopes

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • NLP '00 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We present in this paper some aspects concerning the design and implementation of an architecture that is the basis for the development of a natural language processing system that, besides the obvious goal of building some computational representation (at a desired level) of the input, has two main objectives: to be robust and to evolve. To be robust in the sense that the non recognition of some input should not block the system but, instead, should lead the system to an automatic recovery process. To evolve, so that when some incompleteness/incorrectness is detected (or suspected) during a recovery process, the component responsible for the mistake should be updated accordingly, so that in future analogous situations the system can perform better. In order to achieve this goal we propose the definition of a distributed architecture.