A Hybrid Approach to Representation in the Janus Natural Language Processor

In BBN's natural language understanding and generation system (Janus), we have used a hybrid approach to representation, employing an intensional logic for the representation of the semantics of utterances and a taxonomic language with formal semantics for specification of descriptive constants and axioms relating them. Remarkably, 99.9% of 7,000 vocabulary items in our natural language applications could be adequately axiomatlzed in the taxonomic language.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1989
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Ralph M. Weischedel
• Keywords: ACL 1989, ACL 2007, BBN's Natural Language, Natural Language Applications, Taxonomic Language