{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Ms. Maloprop, A Language Comprehension Program","authors":[{"name":"Eugene Charniak","slug":"eugene-charniak","given":"Eugene","family":"Charniak","affiliation":"Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies University of Geneva , Switzerland"}],"abstract":"This paper describes Ms. Malaprop, a program (currently being designed) which will answer questions about simple stories dealing with painting, where stories, questions and answers will be expressed in semantic representation rather than English in order to allow concentration on the inferential problems involved in language comprehension. The convnon sense knowledge needed to accomplish the task is provided by the frame representation of \"mundane\" painting found in Charniak (1976b). The present paper, after reviewing this representation, goes on to describe how it is used by Ms. Malaprop. Some specific questions of matching, correcting false conclusions, and search, will be discussed.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/1","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0001.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/1.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/bibtex/1","volume":{"slug":"1977","title":"Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1977","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/","year":1977,"location":"Cambridge, MA, USA","dates":"","editors":"Raj Reddy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":1,"pages":{"first":1,"last":6},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"Charniak, E. Inference and knowledge, part I. In E. Charniak andY. Wilks (Eds.), Computa- tional semantics, Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1976a, pp. 1-21.","title":"Inference and knowledge, part I","authors":"E Charniak","year":"1976","venue":"Computational semantics","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":2,"raw":"Charniak, E. A framed PAINTING : the representa- tion of a common sense knowledge fragment. Working paper 29, Institute for semantic and cognitive studies, .]976b.","title":"A framed PAINTING : the representation of a common sense knowledge fragment","authors":"E Charniak","year":null,"venue":"Working paper","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":3,"raw":"Minsky, M. A framework for representing knowledge . In P.H. Winston (Ed.), The psychology of com- puter vision, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1975, pp. 211-277 0","title":"A framework for representing knowledge","authors":"M Minsky","year":"1975","venue":"The psychology of computer vision","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":4,"raw":"Rieger, C. An organization of knowledge for pro- blem solving and language comprehension. In : Artificial intelligence, 7, 1976, pp 0 89-1 27 0","title":"An organization of knowledge for problem solving and language comprehension","authors":"C Rieger","year":"1976","venue":"Artificial intelligence","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":5,"raw":"- Schank, R. and Abelson, R. Scripts, plans and knowledge. In : Advance papers of the fourth international conference on artificial intel- ligence, Tbilisi, 1975, pp. 151-158.","title":"Scripts, plans and knowledge","authors":"R Schank, R Abelson","year":"1975","venue":"Advance papers of the fourth international conference on artificial intelligence","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":"/proceedings/1975/23"}],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}