---
title: "Grammatical Relations as the Basis for Natural Language Parsing and Text Understanding"
authors:
  - "Samuel Bayer"
  - "Leonard Joseph"
  - "Candace E. Kalish"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/155"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0155.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1985
pages: "788-789"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
---

# Grammatical Relations as the Basis for Natural Language Parsing and Text Understanding

Samuel Bayer, Leonard Joseph, Candace E. Kalish

*Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 788-789.

## Abstract

The KING KONG parser described by this paper attempts to apply the principles of relational grammar to the parsing of English in order to overcome the problems encount~red by syntactic and semantic parsers. Specif~cally, this Earser uses relational categories such as subJect~ direct 9bject, and instrume~t to map _ sytact~c const~tuents onto semant~c roles w~th~n CD-like structures. Thus, the parser makes use of both syntactic and semant~c information to guide its parse.