A semantic model for a language processor

  • Authors:

  • Robert V. Zara

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM '67 Proceedings of the 1967 22nd national conference
  • Year:
  • 1967

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to describe a language processor which is presently being developed at the United Aircraft Research Laboratories. The processor is called the Semantic Plex Processor* and is a bootstrap processor in the sense that it starts with a basic vocabulary, but one which is capable of generating new language with relative ease. Thus the set of statements which are ultimately acceptable to the processor is open-ended. Furthermore, the set of statements which are meaningful to the processor is a function not only of the set of statements which occurred in the past, but also of those which may occur in the future. (In this paper the words “time,” “past,” “future,” etc., are used to denote relative positions of statements as they appear from left to right in the input string.)