Research in Natural Language Processing January 15, 1985 - September 15, 1987

Authors: Ralph Grishman; NEW YORK UNIV NY

Abstract:

This report describes research done by the PROTEUS Project at New York University during the period January 15, 1985 to September 15, 1987. All of the activities described below were supported in part by the Strategic Computing Program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under Contract N00014- K-0163 from the Office of Naval Research. The PROTEUS Syntactic Analyzer is intended to provide an efficient, easy-to-use base for the various experiments in computational linguistics. The basic, long-term objective, as part of the Strategic Computing Program in Natural Language Processing, is to develop the technology necessary for the robust automated processing of messages containing natural language narrative. One aspect of the development of such language processing systems is the incorporation of detailed domain knowledge and the effective use of such knowledge in language analysis. The research has focussed on one type of message, CASREPs (equipment casualty reports), on developing detailed domain knowledge (a model of the equipment), and on using this knowledge for language understanding. Keywords: Text processing, Parallel parsing, Semantics. (kr)

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