TY - GEN
T1 - PUNDIT
T2 - Proceedings of the Annual AI Systems in Government Conference
AU - Hirschman, Lynette
AU - Palmer, Martha
AU - Dowding, John
AU - Dahl, Deborah
AU - Linebarger, Marcia
AU - Passonneau, Rebecca
AU - Lang, Francois Michel
AU - Ball, Catherine
AU - Weir, Carl
PY - 1989
Y1 - 1989
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0024860969
SN - 0818619341
T3 - Proc Annu AI Syst Gov Conf
SP - 234
EP - 243
BT - Proc Annu AI Syst Gov Conf
A2 - Antonisse, James H.
A2 - Benoit, John W.
A2 - Silverman, Barry G.
Y2 - 27 March 1989 through 31 March 1989
ER -