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title: "Generating Hierarchical Semantic Networks Froma Natural Language Discourse"
authors:
  - "Camilla Schwind"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/68"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/0068.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1975
pages: "429-434"
track: "Natural Language Understanding"
keywords:
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# Generating Hierarchical Semantic Networks Froma Natural Language Discourse

Camilla Schwind

*Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 429-434.

## Abstract

The following paper contains a description of a computer program that constructs hierarchical semantic networks from natural language texts in simulating completely and precisely the meaning of the input text. The program works with a formal grammar describing sentences syntactically and a formal semantics transducing texts to networks dependent on their syntactic description. The networks' nodes have concepts or again networks as their values. The networks' edges are many-place relations among the concepts respectively networks. They are realized as reference structures. The program in its actual state works on domains which are to comprehend semantically rather well: A network has be en constructured automatically for the area of general topology from a compendium's definitions (N.Bourbaki. Elements of Mathematics. General topology). Another one is being constructed for the area of computer science.