{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Integration, Unification, Reconstruction, Modification: An Eternal Parsing Braid","authors":[{"name":"Michael C. Dyer","slug":"michael-c-dyer","given":"Michael C.","family":"Dyer","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"BORIS is an integrated natural language understanding system for narratives . In an integrated system, processes of event assimilation. inference. and episodic memory search occur on a word-by-word basis as parsing proceeds. \"Parsing\" here refers to the task of building a conceptual representation for each natural language expression . In addition to being integrated, the BORIS parser is also a unified parser. The same parser is used both at s tory understanding time and question answering time. This paper explores some of the consequences which arise when the same parser serves both tasks. For instance, one such consequence is that BORIS often knows the answer to a question before tt has completely understood the question .","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/8","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0008.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/8.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/bibtex/8","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":8,"pages":{"first":37,"last":41},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}