Accession Number:

ADA172436

Title:

Proceedings of the Strategic Computing Natural Language Workshop Held in Marina del Rey, California on 1-2 May 1986.

Descriptive Note:

Special rept.,

Corporate Author:

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MARINA DEL REY INFORMATION SCIENCES INST

Personal Author(s):

• Sondheimer,Norman K.

Report Date:

1986-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

281.0

Abstract:

Contents--Research and Development in Natural Language Processing at BBN Laboratories in the Strategic Computing Program Proteus and Pundit Research in Text Understanding Overview of the TACITUS Project The Counselor Project at the University of Massachusetts Research in Natural Language Processing Text Generation for Strategic Computing Out of the Laboratory A Case Study of the IRUS Natural Language Interface A Terminological Simplification Transformation for Natural Language Question-Answering Systems Model-based Analysis of Messages about Equipment An Equipment Model and its Role in the Interpretation of Nominal Compounds Recovering Implicit Information Focusing and Reference Resolution in PUNDIT Commonsense Metaphysics and Lexical Semantics Multi-level Description Directed Generation TAGs as a Grammatical Formalism Generation Hypotheticals as Heuristic Device Living Up to Expectations Computing Expert Responses The Role of Perspective In Responding to Property Misconceptions Adaptine MUMBLE Experience with Natural Language Generation Some Computational Properties of Tree Adapting Grammars GUMS A General User Modeling System A Logical-Form and Knowledge-Base Design for Natural Language Generation The Lexicon in Text Generation Assertions from Discourse Structure.

Descriptors:

• *NATURAL LANGUAGE
• *TEXT PROCESSING
• SYMPOSIA
• MODELS
• INTERFACES
• PROCESSING
• SEMANTICS
• HEURISTIC METHODS
• COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
• VOCABULARY
• HIERARCHIES
• LEXICOGRAPHY
• GRAMMARS

Subject Categories:

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE