Theoretical Studies in Natural Language Understanding (Language Understanding).

摘要

This report describes progress made during the first year of an ongoing project, the goal of which is the creation of an effective representational framework for dealing with natural language information. By 'natural language information,' we mean data that ranges rather freely within the scope of natural conceptual structures, and does not fall into any simple paradigm. The achievement of such a framework requires a synthesis and development of fundamental ideas in representation, semantics, epistemology, and computer algorithms and data structures. This report describes the state of our understanding of the basic epistemological issues at the end of the first year of the project, and the status at that point of a formal representational system (KLONE) for natural language information. Although the framework is still under active development, it currently demonstrates strong capabilities for representing the inheritance of component parts of complex structured concepts, and provides a continuing stimulus for ongoing research. (Author)