Accession Number:

AD0759716

Title:

The Fourteen Primitive Actions and Their Inferences

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

STANFORD UNIV CA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Personal Author(s):

• Schank, Roger C.

Report Date:

1973-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

74.0

Abstract:

In order to represent the conceptual information underlying a natural language sentence, a conceptual structure was established that uses the basic actor-action-object framework. It was the intent that these structures have only one representation for one meaning, regardless of the semantic form of the sentence being r presented. Actions were reduced to their basic parts so as to effect this. It was found that only fourteen basic actions were needed as building blocks by which all verbs can be represented. Each of these actions has a set of actions or states which can be inferred when they are present.

Descriptors:

• *SEMANTICS
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
• ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Subject Categories:

• Linguistics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE