A hybrid approach to representation in the Janus natural language processor

  • Authors:
  • Ralph M. Weischedel

  • Affiliations:
  • BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

In BBN's natural language understanding and generation system (Janus), we have used a hybrid approach to representation, employing an intensional logic for the representation of the semantics of utterances and a taxonomic language with formal semantics for specification of descriptive constants and axioms relating them. Remarkably, 99.9% of 7,000 vocabulary items in our natural language applications could be adequately axiomatized in the taxonomic language.