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title: "Conceptual Analysis of Noun Groups in English"
authors:
  - "Anatole Gershman"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/26"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0026.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1977
pages: "132-137"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
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# Conceptual Analysis of Noun Groups in English

Anatole Gershman

*Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 132-137.

## Abstract

An expectation-based system, NGP, for parsing English noun groups into the Conceptual Dependency representation is described. The system is a part of ELI (English Language Interpreter) which is used as the front end to several natural language understanding systems and is capable of handling a wide range of sentences of considerable complexity. NGP processes the input from left to right, one word at a time, using linguistic and world knowledge to find the meaning of a noun group. Dictionary entries for individual words contain much of the program's knowledge. In addition, a limited ability for the handling of slightly incorrect sentences and unknown words is incorporated.