Expert System to Help Assess Tactical Air Readiness and Capability. Phase I Report. Appendix 3. The Grammar Rules and Dictionary

摘要

PARSE operates on grammatical labels for English words that differ somewhat from traditional grammatical labels. Each English word in the PARSE dictionary is given a single grammatical label. This label may represent one or more grammatical codes. These grammatical codes may, in some instances, correspond to conventional grammar codes (e.g., adjective, adverb, etc.); nontraditional codes are used to note special distinctions specific to the PARSE grammar. This tactical air assessment expert system will understand English. This means that it must have a vocabulary. Because we want our system to understand as much English as possible, we will build a large vocabulary. We prefer the system know a great many low use words rather than have it ask the user what a word means. This appendix lists approximately 18,000 general purpose words. These words come primarily from two sources: a list of the 2000 most frequently used words in the English language; and summaries of political-military events as reported in the New York Times from 1966 to 1976.