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

Personal Author(s):

• Winograd, Terry

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.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• *ENGLISH LANGUAGE
• *SEMANTICS
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
• MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS
• THESES

Subject Categories:

• Linguistics
• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE