Language comprehension in a problem solver
Douglas T. Wong · 1981
This paper describes BRUIN, a unified A] system that can perform both problem-solving and language comprehension tasks. Included in the system is a frame-based knowledge-representation language called FRAIL, a problem solving component called NASL (which is based on McDermott's problem-solving language of the same name), and a context-recognition component currently known as PRAGMATICS. The intent of this paper is to give a flavor of how the context recognizer PRAGMATICS works and what it can do. Examples are drawn from the inventory-control, restau-rant and blocks-world domains. I