This paper encompasses two main topics: a broad and general analysis of the issue of
performance evaluation of NLP systems and a report on a specific approach developed by …

This paper briefly introduces an approach to the problem of building semantic interpretations
of nominal ComDounds, ie sequences of two or more nouns related through modification …

During the 1970s, a number of experimental systems providing limited natural language
processing capabilities were developed to permit computer access by casual or untrained …

Despite a large amount of research on developing natural language understanding
programs, little work has been done on evaluating their performance or potential. The …

An underlying relational database model and the database query language SQL are
assumed, and methods are presented for responding with appropriate answers to null value …

The availability of advanced function workstations makes possible a new medium for the
manipulation of language which changes in kind as well as in degree the pedagogic and …

Nominal compounds are notoriously ambiguous. Syntactically, the number of parse trees of
a nominal compound is exponential in the number of terms making up the compound …

Though natural language understanding systems have improved markedly in recent years,
they have only begun to consider a major problem of truly natural input: ill-formedness. Quite …

ABSTRACT The Layered Domain Class system (LDC) is an experimental natural language
processor being developed at Duke University which reached the prototype stage in May of …

The task of evaluating the performance of a natural language understanding system, despite
its largely recognized relevance, is still poorly defined. It mostly relies on intuitive reasoning …