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Accession Number:
AD0721399
Title:
Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language
Descriptive Note:
Doctoral thesis
Corporate Author:
MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE PROJECT MAC
Report Date:
1971-02-01
Pagination or Media Count:
472.0
Abstract:
The paper describes a system for the computer understanding of English. The system answers questions, executes commands, and accepts information in normal English dialog. It uses semantic information and context to understand discourse and to disambiguate sentences. It combines a complete syntactic analysis of each sentence with a heuristic understander which uses different kinds of information about a sentence, other parts of the discourse, and general information about the world in deciding what the sentence means.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE