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title: "The Role of Object Primitives in Natural Language Processing"
authors:
  - "Wendy G. Lehnert"
  - "Mark H. Burstein"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/117"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0117.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
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# The Role of Object Primitives in Natural Language Processing

Wendy G. Lehnert, Mark H. Burstein

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

A computer program, OPUS, is described which uses a set of Object Primitives to represent an organizing structure for associative memory. the problem of analyzing natural language knowledge of physical objects and provide OPUS applies this representational system to sentences dealing with objects.