PUNDIT: natural-language processing system.

Lynette Hirschman; Martha Palmer; John Dowding; Deborah Dahl; Marcia Linebarger; Rebecca Passonneau; Francois Michel Lang; Catherine Ball; Carl Weir

PUNDIT: natural-language processing system.

Lynette Hirschman, Martha Palmer, John Dowding, Deborah Dahl, Marcia Linebarger, Rebecca Passonneau, Francois Michel Lang, Catherine Ball, Carl Weir

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

The authors describe the PUNDIT (Prolog Understanding of Integrated Text) text-understanding system, which is designed to analyze and construct representations of paragraph-length text. PUNDIT is implemented in Quintus Prolog, and consists of distinct lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic components. Each component draws on one or more sets of data, including a lexicon, a broad-coverage grammar of English, semantic verb decompositions, rules mapping between syntactic and semantic constituents, and a domain model. Modularity, careful separation of declarative and procedural information, and separation of domain-specific and domain-independent information all contribute to a system which is flexible, extensible and portable. Versions of PUNDIT are now running in five domains, including four military and one medical.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proc Annu AI Syst Gov Conf
Editors	James H. Antonisse, John W. Benoit, Barry G. Silverman
Pages	234-243
Number of pages	10
State	Published - 1989
Event	Proceedings of the Annual AI Systems in Government Conference - Washington, DC, USA Duration: Mar 27 1989 → Mar 31 1989

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Name	Proc Annu AI Syst Gov Conf

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Other	Proceedings of the Annual AI Systems in Government Conference
City	Washington, DC, USA
Period	3/27/89 → 3/31/89

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PUNDIT : natural-language processing system. / Hirschman, Lynette; Palmer, Martha; Dowding, John; Dahl, Deborah; Linebarger, Marcia; Passonneau, Rebecca; Lang, Francois Michel; Ball, Catherine; Weir, Carl.

Proc Annu AI Syst Gov Conf. ed. / James H. Antonisse; John W. Benoit; Barry G. Silverman. 1989. p. 234-243 (Proc Annu AI Syst Gov Conf).

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