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doi:10.22028/D291-24867
Title: | Natural language semantics and compiler technology |
Author(s): | Nerbonne, John Laubsch, Joachim Diagne, Abdel Kader Oepen, Stephan |
Language: | English |
Year of Publication: | 1992 |
OPUS Source: | Kaiserslautern ; Saarbrücken : DFKI, 1992 |
SWD key words: | Künstliche Intelligenz Natürliche Sprache Compiler Semantik |
DDC notations: | 004 Computer science, internet |
Publikation type: | Report |
Abstract: | This paper recommends an approach to the implementation of semantic representation languages (SRLs) which exploits a parallelism between SRLs and programming languages (PLs). The design requirements of SRLs for natural language are similar to those of PLs in their goals. First, in both cases we seek modules in which both the surface representation (print form) and the underlying data structures are important. This requirement highlights the need for general tools allowing the printing and reading of expressions (data structures). Second, these modules need to cooperate with foreign modules, so that the importance of interface technology (compilation) is paramount; and third, both compilers and semantic modules need "inferential" facilities for transforming (simplifying) complex expressions in order to ease subsequent processing. But the most important parallel is the need in both fields for tools which are useful in combination with a variety of concrete languages -- general purpose parsers, printers, simplifiers (transformation facilities) and compilers. This arises in PL technology from (among other things) the need for experimentation in language design, which is again parallel to the case of SRLs. Using a compiler-based approach, we have implemented NLL, a public domain software package for computational natural language semantics. Several interfaces exist both for grammar modules and for applications, using a variety of interface technologies, including especially compilation. We review here a variety of NLL, applications, focusing on COSMA, an NL interface to a distributed appointment manager. |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-36201 hdl:20.500.11880/24923 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-24867 |
Series name: | Research report / Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz [ISSN 0946-008x] |
Series volume: | 92-55 |
Date of registration: | 22-Jun-2011 |
Faculty: | SE - Sonstige Einrichtungen |
Department: | SE - DFKI Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz |
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