{"id":73,"date":"2010-02-10T22:04:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T06:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/?p=73"},"modified":"2010-02-10T22:08:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T06:08:44","slug":"blockworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/2010\/02\/10\/blockworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Natural Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding Natural Language &#8211; Winograd 1972<\/p>\n<div>Describes the Blockworld system. \u00a0Argues for many features of modern linguistic theory including phrase and feature based syntax, a semantics based on relations, properties, events and objects. \u00a0Introduces language understanding as the task of translating between a string representation of a language and a conceptual representation suitable for inference and reasoning. \u00a0Recognizes the interdependence between words, their immediate constituents, local discourse context, overall discourse context and background world knowledge. \u00a0Combines the tasks of parsing, interpreting and reasoning based on context\u00a0simultaneously. \u00a0Language is used to convey meaning for a purpose and we need systems that recognize this fact and incorporate all the sources of information we use to accomplish this task.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding Natural Language &#8211; Winograd 1972 Describes the Blockworld system. \u00a0Argues for many features of modern linguistic theory including phrase and feature based syntax, a semantics based on relations, properties, events and objects. \u00a0Introduces language understanding as the task of translating between a string representation of a language and a conceptual representation suitable for inference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}