Talking with Computers in Natural Language - Popov, Eduard V.

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Sommaire:
1 Theories and Principles of Designing the Model of Conversation.- 1.1 Main Characteristics of the Process of Conversation.- 1.2 An Analysis of Existing Linguistic Models.- 1.3 Principles of the Model of Conversation.- 2 Principles of Construction and General Organization of the Model of a Participant in the Conversation.- 2.1 Initial Premises for Designing the Model of a Participant in the Conversation.- 2.2 Problems Connected with the Model of a Participant in the Conversation.- 2.3 Existing Systems of Conversation.- 2.4 Composition and Structure of the Model of a Participant in the Conversation.- 2.5 General Structure of the Model of a Participant in the Conversation.- 3 The Structure of Knowledge and Methods of Representing Reality: Knowledge About the Surrounding Environment.- 3.1 WHAT Is to Be Represented and HOW?.- 3.2 The Model of the Surrounding Environment ? Preliminary Notions.- 3.3 Structure of Knowledge of the Surroundings.- 3.4 Classification of Methods of Representing Knowledge.- 3.5 Representing Knowledge About the Model of the Surrounding Environment.- 4 The System?s Knowledge About the Language and the Participants in the Conversation.- 4.1 Connected Text and Linguistic Concordances.- 4.2 Knowledge About the Language of Conversation.- 4.3 Representation of Individual (Dictionary) Pieces of Knowledge About Language.- 4.4 Knowledge About the System Itself: Methods of Representing This Knowledge.- 4.5 Knowledge of the User.- 5 Input Sentence Analysis.- 5.1 General Outline.- 5.2 Morphological Analysis of Word Forms: Presyntax.- 5.3 Syntactic Sentence Analysis.- 5.4 Semantic Analysis of a Sentence (SEAS).- 6 Connected-Text (Discourse) Processing.- 6.1 General Structure.- 6.2 Determining the Linguistically Expressible Interdependencies Between Sentences in a Discourse.- 6.3 Context and Its Role in Discourse Processing.- 6.4 Interpretation of an Input Text: Inferring.- 7 Synthesis of Statements in Natural Language.- 7.1 General Model of Synthesizing Texts.- 7.2 Semantic Synthesis of the Graph of an Answer.- 7.3 Syntactic Synthesis of an Output Sentence.- 7.4 Morphological Synthesis of the Word Forms of the Sentence Being Synthesized.- 8 Work to Date on Designing Systems of Conversation.- 8.1 General Outline of the POET System.- 8.2 Representation of Knowledge in the POET System.- 8.3 Practical Operations of the POET System.- 8.4 The POET System as a Means of Automatically Describing Inquiries and Documents.- Epilogue.- References.