Natural language processing

Published 1 January 1987

Roger C. Schank, Alex Kass

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It is only possible for research on understanding natural language to make progress when the researchers realize that the heart of NLU is the understanding process, not language per se.

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Article Free Access Share on Natural language processing: what's really involved? Authors: Roger Schank Yale University, New Haven, CT Yale University, New Haven, CTView Profile , Alex Kass Yale University, New Haven, CT Yale University, New Haven, CTView Profile Authors Info & Claims TINLAP '87: Proceedings of the 1987 workshop on Theoretical issues in natural language processingJanuary 1987 Pages 111–115https://doi.org/10.3115/980304.980329Online:07 January 1987Publication History 0citation488DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads488Last 12 Months101Last 6 weeks8 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

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