Assembly of conceptual graphs from natural language by means of multiple knowledge specialists

Mann, G.A. (1993) Assembly of conceptual graphs from natural language by means of multiple knowledge specialists. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 754 . pp. 273-282.

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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Copyright:	2005 Springer-Verlag
Other Information:	Book title: Conceptual Structures: Theory and Implementation: 7th Annual Workshop Las Cruces, NM, USA, July 8–10, 1992 Proceedings
URI:	http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/31704

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