1964 ⟶ Danny Bobrow's Dissertation on Natural Language Understanding
Danny Bobrow's dissertation at MIT (technical report #1 from...
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🗣️ Danny Bobrow's Dissertation on Natural Language Understanding
Danny Bobrow's dissertation at MIT (technical report #1 from MIT's AI group, Project MAC), shows that computers can understand natural language well enough to solve Algebra word problems correctly.⟶
Natural Language ProcessingLanguage UnderstandingDanny BobrowMITAI researchComputational Linguistics
United States❓ SIR Program for Question-Answering Systems
Bertram Raphael's MIT dissertation on the SIR program demonstrates the power of a logical representation of knowledge for question-answering systems.⟶
Question AnsweringKnowledge RepresentationSIRBertram RaphaelMITLogical Representation
United States💬 ELIZA: Interactive Dialogue Program
Joseph Weizenbaum (MIT) built ELIZA, an Interactive program that carries on a dialogue in English language on any topic. It was a popular toy at AI centers on the ARPANET when a version that "simulated" the dialogue of a psychotherapist was programmed.⟶
Natural Language ProcessingDialogue SystemsChatbotPsychotherapyMITWeizenbaumARPANETEarly AI
United States🗣️ Woods Describes Augmented Transition Networks (ATNs)
Bill Woods described Augmented Transition Networks (ATN's) as a representation for natural language understanding.⟶
Natural Language ProcessingAugmented Transition NetworksSyntaxParsingLanguage UnderstandingBill WoodsComputational Linguistics
USA🤖 Winograd's SHRDLU Demonstrates Language Understanding in a Blocks World
Terry Winograd's PhD thesis (MIT) demonstrated the ability of computers to understand English sentences in a restricted world of children's blocks, in a coupling of his language understanding program, SHRDLU, with a robot arm that carried out instructions typed in English.⟶
Natural Language ProcessingBlocks WorldSHRDLULanguage UnderstandingRoboticsTerry WinogradMITEarly Demonstrations
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