A KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION LANGUAGE for NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, SIMULATION and REASONING

International Journal of Semantic Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-23

  McShane, Marjorie ^a   Nirenburg, Sergei ^a  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

computational semantics; Knowledge representation; natural language processing; simulation

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

COGNITIVE MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS; CORE FUNCTIONALITY; HUMAN BEING; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION LANGUAGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RUNTIME FUNCTIONS; SIMULATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85073248887     PISSN: 1793351X     EISSN: 17937108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793351X12400016     Document Type: Article

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