Natural language understanding, propositional representations and the parrot system

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Abstract

PARROT is a system for paraphrasing simple stories about stereotypical events like getting up in the morning or buying food in a shop. The ideas come from SAM and other Yale School work, but instead of having scripts, PARROT has Knowledge Structures (KSs) implemented in a system consisting of five networks plus an inference network for each KS. The system works in three phases, input, inference, and output. During input, text like 'John eat breakfast' is first converted by a network into four field form. A second network determines which KS action (if any) should 'recognise' the input. Such actions save the input in the weights of a third network.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)318
Number of pages1
JournalNeural Networks
Volume1
Issue number1 SUPPL
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1988
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Neural Network Society 1988 First Annual Meeting - Boston, MA, USA
Duration: 6 Sep 198810 Sep 1988

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