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title: "An Object-Oriented Parser for Text Understanding"
authors:
  - "Brian Phillips"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/166"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0166.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1983
pages: "690-691"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
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# An Object-Oriented Parser for Text Understanding

Brian Phillips

*Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 690-691.

## Abstract

The parser is part of a text understanding system in which structural ambiguity is a major problem. All components of the system use a message-passing contra 1 structure. A genera 1 advantage of this form of control is that it allows the flexible integration of diverse knowledge sources. The parser transmits sub-sentential constituents for semantic interpret~tion. A pseudo-parallel version of the left-corner parsing algorithm with top-down filtering is used. As blind transmission would send spurious constituents, a delay mechanism is used to queue constituents until all alternativeanalyses of a segment have been completed.