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This paper describes an operable automatic parser for natural language. The parser is not concerned with producing the syntactic structure of an input sentence. Instead, it is a conceptual parser, concerned with determining the underlying meaning of the ...

A method for automatically precoordinating index terms was devised to form combinations of terms which are stored as subject headings. A computer program accepts lists of auto-indexed terms and by applying linguistic and sequence rules combines ...

Experiments conducted over the last few years with the SMART document retrieval system have shown that fully automatic text processing methods using relatively simple linguistic tools are as effective for purposes of document indexing, classification, ...

Automatic error-correction in natural language processing is based on the principle of 'elastic matching'. Text words are segmented into 'lines' with letters arranged according to a pre-determined sequence, and then matched line-by-line, shifts being ...

This paper describes the use of an on-line system to do word-sense ambiguity resolution and content analysis of English text paragraphs, using a system of semantic analysis programmed in Q32 LISP 1.5. The system of semantic analysis comprised dictionary ...

In this paper the development of a system for automated processing of medical English is investigated. The parsing algorithms for morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis of medical diagnoses are described. The immediate objective of this research ...

In this paper, a recently proposed level-oriented model for machine analysis and synthesis of natural languages is investigated. Claims concerning the preservation of context-free (CF) languages in such a system are examined and shown to be unjustified. ...

Traditional grammars classify words according to generic syntactic functions or morphological characteristics. For teaching humans and for descriptive linguistics this seemed sufficient. The advent of computers has changed the situation. Since machines ...

On time reference and tense.The problems of time reference and tense in natural languages are discussed in their syntactic and semantic aspects. The syntactic description is based on the principles of the generative transformational grammar. Since tense ...

The formalization of natural language semantics is a problem central to a number of major academic and practical concerns. A semantic theory requires a formalized representation of messages, arrangements of morphological units, and the processes of ...