Porting PUNDIT to the resource management domain
Lynette Hirschman, François-Michel Lang, John Dowding, Carl Edward Weir · 1989
This paper describes our experiences porting the PUNDIT natural language processing system to the Resource Management domain. PUNDIT has previously been applied to a range of messages (see the paper Analyzing Explicitly Structured Discourse in a Limited Domain: Trouble and Failure Reports by C. Ball (appearing in this volume), and also [Hirschman1989]. However, it had not not been tested on any significant corpus of queries, such as that represented by the Resource Management corpus. Our goal was to assess PUNDIT's portability, and to determine its coverage of syntax over this domain. Time constraints precluded testing of the semantic component, but we plan to report on this at subsequent meetings. We performed this port with the intention of coupling PUNDIT to the MIT SUMMIT speech recognition system. This work is described in another paper in this volume, Reducing Search by Partitioning the Word Network, by J. Dowding.