Journal article
Assembly of conceptual graphs from natural language by means of multiple knowledge specialists
Conceptual Structures: Theory and Implementation, Vol.754, pp.273-282
1993
Abstract
A method of generating conceptual graphs representing the meanings of real natural language texts is advanced. Three language specialists are employed, each of which may make a contribution to the final conceptual structure. A syntactic specialist trys to assemble a graph by maximally joining graphs accumulated while recursively ascending a phrase structure tree from a syntactic parser. A semantic specialist trys to fill thematic role slots in template graphs by the successive application of selectional constraints to alternatives. A pragmatic specialist trys to classify text according to its intended purpose as a speech act, and handle idioms. Methods of deciding between policies for controlling the specialists and integrating the contributions of the language specialists, to be used by a control specialist, are described. An implementation capable of handling real direction texts for physical navigation is under development.
Details
- Title
- Assembly of conceptual graphs from natural language by means of multiple knowledge specialists
- Authors/Creators
- G.A. Mann (Author/Creator) - UNSW Sydney
- Publication Details
- Conceptual Structures: Theory and Implementation, Vol.754, pp.273-282
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Identifiers
- 991005542359207891
- Copyright
- 2005 Springer-Verlag
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Additional Information
- Book title: Conceptual Structures: Theory and Implementation: 7th Annual Workshop Las Cruces, NM, USA, July 8–10, 1992 Proceedings
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