Transition network grammars for natural language analysis
Communications of the ACM
Micro-Planner Reference Manual
Micro-Planner Reference Manual
IJCAI'79 Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
This paper describes an approach to conceptual analysis and understanding of natural language in which linguistic knowledge centers on individual words, and the analysis mechanisms consist of interactions among distributed procedural experts representing that knowledge. Each word expert models the process of diagnosing the intended usage of a particular word in context. The Word Expert Parser performs conceptual analysis through the interactions of the individual experts, which ask questions and exchange information in converging on a single mutually acceptable sentence meaning. The Word Expert theory is advanced as a better cognitive model of natural language understanding than the traditional rule-based approaches. The Word Expert Parser models parts of the theory, and the important issues of control and representation that arise in developing such a model from the basis of the technical discussion. An example from the prototype LISP implementation helps explain the theoretical results presented.