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title: "PUS, A Paradigmatic Language Acquisition System: An Overview"
authors:
  - "V. Sembugamoorthy"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/173"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0173.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
keywords:
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# PUS, A Paradigmatic Language Acquisition System: An Overview

V. Sembugamoorthy

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

## 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.