{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"PUS, A Paradigmatic Language Acquisition System: An Overview","authors":[{"name":"V. Sembugamoorthy","slug":"v-sembugamoorthy","given":"V.","family":"Sembugamoorthy","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"This paper informally describes the capabilities of a teachable analogr-baaed languageindependent natural language acquisition system known aa PW. Ita language comprehension ia intended to resemble that of pre-school children in certain significant aspects. It can be taught, through examplea, to underatand and acquire the situational aspects (i.e., physical objects, agents, tbeir aensori-110tor properties and apatial relations) described in a text. It has no built-in knowledge of English or the domain of discourse. Neither it infers any formal grammar of English.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/173","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0173.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/173.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/bibtex/173","volume":{"slug":"1979","title":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1979","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/","year":1979,"location":"Tokyo, Japan","dates":"August 20-23, 1979","editors":"Bruce G. Buchanan","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":173,"pages":{"first":null,"last":null},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}