HYBRID HEURISTIC SEMANTIC NETWORKS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING
Dan R. Corbett · International Journal of Uncertainty Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems · 1995
It has never been demonstrated that a pure semantic analysts of an English sentence can be accomplished without any aid from a syntactic analyzer. It has therefore become interesting to demonstrate semantic systems which can be guided by fast and efficient syntactic methods. We show that non-probabilistic, abductive techniques can be used in a hybrid network to correctly interpret the meaning of an English sentence. We discuss the implementation of an abductive system which uses heuristics working together with a semantic network in an attempt to eliminate uncertainty and ambiguity in natural language text.