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Planning English Sentences (Studies in Natural Language Processing)

By Douglas E. Appelt

Book information

Year
1992
ISBN
0521438039, 9780511624575, 9780521301152, 9780521438032
Open Library ID
OL7740793M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
893 kB (914320 bytes)
Pages
184\181
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book is an investigation into the problems of generating natural language utterances to satisfy specific goals the speaker has in mind. It is thus an ambitious and significant contribution to research on language generation in artificial intelligence, which has previously concentrated in the main on the problem of translation from an internal semantic representation into the target language. Dr. Appelt's approach, based on a possible-worlds semantics of an intensional logic of knowledge and action, enables him to develop a formal representation of the effects of illocutionary acts and the speaker's beliefs about the hearer's knowledge of the world. The theory is embodied and illustrated in a computer system, KAMP (Knowledge and Modalities Planner), described in the book. Dr. Appelt's work thus has important applications to the design of interactive computer systems, multiagent planning systems and the planning of knowledge acquisition.

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