{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Variable-Depth Natural Language Understanding","authors":[{"name":"Daniel Kayser","slug":"daniel-kayser","given":"Daniel","family":"Kayser","affiliation":""},{"name":"Daniel Coulon","slug":"daniel-coulon","given":"Daniel","family":"Coulon","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"S tandard A I repr e s e ntations of knowl e dge oper ate a t fixed depth (i.e. th e ob je c ts manipulat ed are des c ribed by an amount of information whi c h r emains constant for every task). Contrary to thi s approach, Variable Depth Pro ce ssing (VDP) us es a progressive des c ription of objects, tries different strategies according to the quality of the re s ult it needs, a nd continually controls this quality by means of an evaluation of th e approximati ons it makes. -- --Contextual Production Rules are shown t o be effect iv e way to implement some features of VDP. We are currently developing a VDP questionanswering sys tem which works on texts c on ce rnin g a no n-technical subje ct , namel y an e x ce rpt of a genera l public - oriented encyclopaedia.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/15","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0015.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/15.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/bibtex/15","volume":{"slug":"1981","title":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1981","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/","year":1981,"location":"Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada","dates":"24-28 August 1981","editors":"Roger C. Schank","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":15,"pages":{"first":64,"last":65},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}