A common facts data base
Published 1 January 1989Open access
William Crowther
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This note is about a project whose goal has been to develop methods for converting large amounts of natural language text into machine-accessible data base relations.
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This note is about a project whose goal has been to develop methods for converting large amounts of natural language text into machine-accessible data base relations. The easiest way to explain the project is to describe its historical development, pointing out along the way key ideas relating to the project's goal, its version of "meaning," its data representation, and how it treats errors.
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Computer Science
The MIT Press eBooksUsing English for Indexing and Retrieving
35 Citations1990
This paper describes a natural language system, START, which analyzes English text and automatically transforms it into an appropriate representation, the {\it knowledge base}, which incorporates the information found in the text.