Browsing AI Memos (1959 - 2004) by Author "Katz, Boris"

Now showing items 1-5 of 5

    • Exploiting Lexical Regularities in Designing Natural Language Systems 

      Katz, Boris; Levin, Beth (1988-04-01)
      This paper presents the lexical component of the START Question Answering system developed at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. START is able to interpret correctly a wide range of semantic relationships associated ...

    • Learning Physical Descriptions from Functional Definitions, Examples, and Precedents 

      Winston, Patrick H.; Binford, Thomas O.; Katz, Boris; Lowry, Michael (1982-11-01)
      It is too hard to tell vision systems what things look like. It is easier to talk about purpose and what things are for. Consequently, we want vision systems to use functional descriptions to identify things when ...

    • Parsing and Generating English Using Commutative Transformations 

      Katz, Boris; Winston, Patrick H. (1982-05-01)
      This paper is about an implemented natural language interface that translates from English into semantic net relations and from semantic net relations back into English. The parser and companion generator were implemented ...

    • A Three-Step Procedure for Language Generation 

      Katz, Boris (1980-12-01)
      This paper outlines a three-step plan for generating English text from any semantic representation by applying a set of syntactic transformations to a collection of kernel sentences. The paper focuses on describing a ...

    • Using English For Indexing and Retrieving 

      Katz, Boris (1988-10-01)
      This paper describes a natural language system START. The system analyzes English text and automatically transforms it into an appropriate representation, the knowledge base, which incorporates the information found in the ...