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This paper presents an extended Prolog and its application to an integrated parser for text understanding. The word ‘integrated’ includes some meanings. First, syntactic, semantic, and contextual analyses occur as an integral part of the parsing process. Second, three distinct metaphors available in the field of computational linguistics, such as procedure oriented, declaration oriented, and actor oriented metaphors are incorporated into a single grammar formalism. Third, two major discourse analyses, expectation-driven and explanation-driven approaches are unified into a single module. The language Prolog discussed here is extended by allowing the inclusion of both ‘equality assertions’ for defining a new data type and computational entities ‘actors’ for performing computation via ‘message passing’.
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Uehara, K., Kakiuchi, T., Mikami, O., Toyoda, J. (1986). Extended Prolog and its application to an integrated parser for text understanding. In: Wada, E. (eds) Logic Programming '85. LP 1985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 221. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-16479-0_21
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