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Title: Understanding narrative in messages and reports

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OSTI ID:5436572

Application systems accepting natural language input have burgeoned in the past few years. Most of these are interactive applications-database retrieval, document preparation, command and control. At New York University and now also at the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence they have focused on a different class of applications, involving the analysis of short reports from scientific and technical domains. There are many areas in which such reports are generated in large volume and there is a pressing need for an ability to process such documents automatically, in order to maintain databases and gather statistics. They have developed techniques for analyzing such reports and have applied them to medical summaries and to military messages concerning equipment failure. 16 references.

OSTI ID:
5436572
Report Number(s):
CONF-8305288-
Resource Relation:
Conference: Trends and applications on automating intelligent behavior: applications and frontiers, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 25 May 1983
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English