Deep Sentence Understanding in a Restricted Domain

We present here the current prototype of the text understanding system HELENE. The objective of this system is to achieve a deep understanding of small reports dealing with a restricted domain. Sentence understanding builds a model of the state of the world described, through the application of several knowledge modules: (i) LFG parsing, (ii) syntactic disambiguation based on lexical entry semantic components, (iii) assembly of semantic components and instantiation of domain entities, and (iv) construction of a world model through activation of common sense and domain knowledge.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1990
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Pierre Zweigenbaum, Marc Cavazza
• Keywords: COLING 1990, COLING 2008, Deep Understanding, Entry Semantic Components, Semantic Components