SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS IN AUTOMATED PROCESSES FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING USING GENERAL COMPOSITION
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Abstract
A natural language understanding system may be given the capability to construct a semantically detailed parse tree for each acceptable interpretation of an input natural language expression (or fewer such parse trees than interpretations) by independently solving sub-trees corresponding to various series of post nominal modifiers and associating those partial solutions with corresponding nodes in the overall parse tree. The argument order in predicate calculus atomic formulas may be standardized in a manner that supports the use of a chart parser applied to a head-driven phase structure grammar and that permits a simplified more tractable grammar that in turn can be used as a domain general semantic grammar.
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49 Claims
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26. A method comprising:
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using at least a processor and memory for; receiving a first natural language expression; and identifying at least one modifier natural language expression comprised within the first natural language expression. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A system configured to:
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at least a processor and memory comprising a natural language parser, the natural language parser is configured to; receive a first natural language expression; and identify at least one modifier natural language expression comprised within the first natural language expression. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:
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receive, by the computing device, a first natural language expression; and identify, by the computing device, at least one modifier natural language expression comprised within the first natural language expression. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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