{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Understanding System Specifications Written in Natural Language","authors":[{"name":"John J. Granacki Jr.","slug":"john-j-granacki-jr","given":"John J. Granacki","family":"Jr.","affiliation":""},{"name":"Alice C. Parker","slug":"alice-c-parker","given":"Alice C.","family":"Parker","affiliation":""},{"name":"Yigal Arens","slug":"yigal-arens","given":"Yigal","family":"Arens","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"This paper describes research in understanding system specification8 written in natural language. Thill re11earch involves the implementation of a natural language interface, PHRANSPAN, for 8pecifying the ab11tract behavior of digital 8!18tem8 in reiJtricted Englillh text. A neutral formal representation for the behavior ill described UIJing the USC De11ign Data Structure. A •mall IJet of concept• that characterize digital 1Jy11tem behavior are preiJented UIJing thill repreiJentation. An intermediate repreIJentation looiJely ba~ed on Conceptual Dependency ill pre11ented. /tiJ UIJe with a 11emantic-ba1Jed par~er to tran11late from Engli11h to the formal repreiJentation ill illUIJtrated by ezampleiJ.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/136","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0136.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/136.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/bibtex/136","volume":{"slug":"1987","title":"Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1987","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/","year":1987,"location":"Milan, Italy","dates":"","editors":"John McDermott","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":136,"pages":{"first":688,"last":690},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}