| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L98183/01 |
| Title: |
SYNTACTIC & SEMANTIC UNDERSPECIFICATION: THE DYNAMICS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING |
| Principal Investigator: |
Gabbay, Professor D |
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Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
Kings College London |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1998 |
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31 August 1998 |
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18,243
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| Human Communication in ICT |
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The goal of the research is to define a logic formalism for an integrated theory of discourse mirroring the steps a hearer takes in building up interpretation for a sentence from the words as presented in sequence: understanding of this process is of high priority for development of human-computer dialogue systems. The model takes English input and progressively builds up a logical form corresponding to meaning as established in context. Part 1 of this work (GR/K68776 / 67397) set out a modular system with in which syntactic / semantic / contextual information can be progressively combined together, using logic tools independently established by Gabbay / Meyer-Viol. The focus has been on defining the architecture in which these different types of information are put together; and the result is a new dynamic formalism for natural language.In part 2, we will formally define ways in which initially underspecified context and tree-structural information projected by English expressions are enriched during the interpretation process, with an exploration of how to incorporate reasoning involving non-linguistic knowledge. We take a particular case-study where syntactic / semantic / pragmatic factors interact, to provide a controlled study, with implementation, of interplay between these factors in on-line discourse.We shall also explore adapting the developed algorithm to natural language querying of a database.
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