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This book is an investigation into the problems of generating natural language utterances to satisfy specific goals the speaker has in mind. It is thus an ambitious and significant contribution to research on language generation in artificial intelligence, which has previously concentrated in the main on the problem of translation from an internal semantic representation into the target language. Dr. Appelt's approach, based on a possible-worlds semantics of an intensional logic of knowledge and action, enables him to develop a formal representation of the effects of illocutionary acts and the speaker's beliefs about the hearer's knowledge of the world. The theory is embodied and illustrated in a computer system, KAMP (Knowledge and Modalities Planner), described in the book. Dr. Appelt's work thus has important applications to the design of interactive computer systems, multiagent planning systems and the planning of knowledge acquisition.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139780521438032
eBay Product ID (ePID)91369569
Product Key Features
Number of Pages184 Pages
Publication NamePlanning English Sentences
LanguageEnglish
SubjectComputer Science
Publication Year1992
TypeTextbook
AuthorDouglas E. Appelt
SeriesStudies in Natural Language Processing
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight280 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorDouglas E. Appelt