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title: "High Performance Natural Language Processing on Semantic Network Array Processor"
authors:
  - "Hiroaki Kitano"
  - "Dan I. Moldovan"
  - "Seungho Cha"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/134"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/0134.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1991
pages: "911-916"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
---

# High Performance Natural Language Processing on Semantic Network Array Processor

Hiroaki Kitano, Dan I. Moldovan, Seungho Cha

*Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 911-916.

## Abstract

This paper describes a natural language processing system developed for the Semantic Network Array Processor (SNAP). The goal of our work is to develop a scalable and high-performance natural language processing system which utilizes the high degree of parallelism provided by the SNAP machine. We have implemented an experimental machine translation system as a central part of a realtime speech-to-speech dialogue translation system. It is a SNAP version of the ~DMDIALOG speech-tospeech translation system. Memory-based natural language processing and syntactic constraint network model has been incorporated using parallel marker-passing which is directly supported from hardware level. Experimental results demonstrate that the parsing of a sentence is done in the order of milliseconds.