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Natural language understanding within a cognitive semantics framework

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The article argues that cognitive linguistic theory may prove an alternative to the Montague paradigm for designing natural language understanding systems. Within this framework it describes a system which models language understanding as a dialogical process between user and computer. The system operates with natural language texts as input and represent language meaning as entity-relationship diagrams.

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  1. Department of Communication and Humanistic Informatics Section, Aalborg University, Langagervej 6, Box 159, DK-9100, Aalborg, Denmark

    Inger Lytje

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Lytje, I. Natural language understanding within a cognitive semantics framework. AI & Soc 4, 276–290 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01894032

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