Understanding and Representing Natural Language Meaning.
David L. Waltz, La Raw Maran, Marcy H. Dorfman, Rick Dinitz, David Farwell · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 1982
A B S T R A C T (C o n t in u e on re v e r se s id e if n e c e s s a r y and id e n tify by b lo c k num ber)During this contract period, we: (a) introduced new representation schemes called "event shape diagrams" for events and actions; (b) developed mechanisms for "explanatory schema acquisition," a process which allows a program to learn new plans and scripts (i.e., action sequences) by reading articles or stories based on the plans or scripts; (c) completed work on computer programs which can understand complex noun phrases (such as "water pump pulley adjustment screw thread damage report summary"); (d) made substantial progress toward identifying and cataloging "cognitive universals" (processes and structures __________