Prediction and Substantiation: Two Processes that Comprise Understanding

DeJong, Gerald

Prediction and Substantiation: Two Processes that Comprise Understanding

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

Abstract

This paper describes a new approach to natural language processing which results in a very robust and efficient system. The approach taken is to integrate the parser with the rest of the system. This enables the parser to benefit from predictions that the rest of the system makes in the course of its processing. A program, called FRUMP for Fast Reading Understanding and Memory Program, employs this approach to parsing. FRUMP skims articles rather than reading them for detail. The program works on the relatively unconstrained domain of news articles. It routinely understands stories it has never before seen.

Gerald DeJong. 1979. Prediction and Substantiation: Two Processes that Comprise Understanding. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-79. IJCAI, https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/49

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  author    = {DeJong, Gerald},
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  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
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  year      = {1979},
  month     = {8},
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