BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CS-TR-73-358
       ENTRY:: September 25, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
       TITLE:: Inference and the computer understanding of natural language.
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Schank, Roger C.
      AUTHOR:: Rieger, Charles J., III
        DATE:: May 1973
       PAGES:: 66
    ABSTRACT:: The notion of computer understanding of natural language is
               examined relative to inference mechanisms designed to
               function in a language-free deep conceptual base (Conceptual
               Dependency). The conceptual analysis of a natural language
               sentence into this conceptual base, and the nature of the
               memory which stores and operates upon these conceptual
               structures are described from both theoretical and practical
               standpoints. The various types of inferences which can be
               made during and after the conceptual analysis of a sentence
               are defined, and a functioning program which performs these
               inference tasks is described. Actual computer output is
               included.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19950925]
         END:: STAN//CS-TR-73-358