{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Alternative Parsers for Conceptual Dependency: Getting There is Half the Fun","authors":[{"name":"Marc Eisenstadt","slug":"marc-eisenstadt","given":"Marc","family":"Eisenstadt","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"This paper take s a look behind the scenes at two conceptual l y-ba s ed pa rse r s i n or d er t o shed light on the tru e differences between them. The f i rst one i s Ri c sbeck' s parse r for Scha nk ' s conceptual dependency; the second is the 'LNR' parser for Norm a n and Rume l har t' s ac t i ve semantic networks. Both are described in terms of Kaplan' s General Synt a ct ic Pro cess or formalism. This analysis shows that 'conceptual dependency' and 'activ e se ma ntic ne twork s ' have little or nothing to do with the actual functionin g of th e p ar ser .s . Com pu ta tion ally, the two parsers differ only in terms of ( a) e ff e ctive use of int e rrupt s and ( b ) r el i an ce on selectional restrictions to guide parsing. A s ynthesis of the be st f ea tur es of bot h i s suggested.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/52","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0052.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/52.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/bibtex/52","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":52,"pages":{"first":null,"last":null},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}