{"title":"A question-answering system for high school algebra word problems","authors":"D. Bobrow","doi":"10.1145/1464052.1464108","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the research reported here was to discover methods for building computer programs which can understand and communicate with people in a non-trivial subset of English. A computer program understands a subset of English if it accepts input sentences which are members of this subset, and answers questions based on information contained in the input. We describe in this paper a semantic theory of discourse, and utilize a first approximation to the analytical portion of this theory in the STUDENT question-answering system, a program which understands a subset of English in the sense defined above.","PeriodicalId":126790,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '64 (Fall, part I)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1899-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"82","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AFIPS '64 (Fall, part I)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1464052.1464108","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The aim of the research reported here was to discover methods for building computer programs which can understand and communicate with people in a non-trivial subset of English. A computer program understands a subset of English if it accepts input sentences which are members of this subset, and answers questions based on information contained in the input. We describe in this paper a semantic theory of discourse, and utilize a first approximation to the analytical portion of this theory in the STUDENT question-answering system, a program which understands a subset of English in the sense defined above.