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Conceptual dependency: A theory of natural language understanding
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This article is published in Cognitive Psychology.The article was published on 1972-10-01. It has received 974 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Natural language understanding & Object language.read more
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Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference
TL;DR: Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems as mentioned in this paper is a complete and accessible account of the theoretical foundations and computational methods that underlie plausible reasoning under uncertainty, and provides a coherent explication of probability as a language for reasoning with partial belief.
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A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing
TL;DR: The present paper shows how the extended theory can account for results of several production experiments by Loftus, Juola and Atkinson's multiple-category experiment, Conrad's sentence-verification experiments, and several categorization experiments on the effect of semantic relatedness and typicality by Holyoak and Glass, Rips, Shoben, and Smith, and Rosch.
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A framework for representing knowledge
TL;DR: The enormous problem of the volume of background common sense knowledge required to understand even very simple natural language texts is discussed and it is suggested that networks of frames are a reasonable approach to represent such knowledge.
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Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database
TL;DR: Standard alphabetical procedures for organizing lexical information put together words that are spelled alike and scatter words with similar or related meanings haphazardly through the list.
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Strategies of Discourse Comprehension
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ELIZA — a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine
TL;DR: A discussion of some psychological issues relevant to the ELIZA approach as well as of future developments concludes the paper.
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The structure of a semantic theory
Jerrold J. Katz,Jerry A. Fodor +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the problem of characterizing the form of semantic theories by describing the structure of a semantic theory of English has been investigated, and it has been shown that the results can be applied to semantic theories of languages unrelated to English and suggest how to proceed with the construction of such theories.
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Procedures as a representation for data in a computer program for understanding natural language
TL;DR: A system for the computer understanding of English that combines a complete syntactic analysis of each sentence with a 'heuristic understander' which uses different kinds of information about a sentence, other parts of the discourse, and general information about the world in deciding what the sentence means.