Analyzing telegraphic messages

  • Authors:
  • Ralph Grishman;John Sterling

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • HLT '89 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

Most people have little difficulty reading telegraphic-style messages such asSHIPMENT GOLD BULLION ARRIVING STAGECOACH JAN. 7 3 PMeven though lots of material has been omitted which would be required in "standard English", such as articles, prepositions, and verbs. Our concern in this paper is how to process such messages by computer. Even though people don't send many telegrams anymore, this problem is still of importance because many military messages are written in this telegraphic style:2 FLARES SIGHTED 230704Z6 SOUTH APPROX 5 MI SPA ESTABLISHED(here 230704Z6 is the time, and SPA is the Submarine Probability Area).