1971 ⟶ Winograd's SHRDLU Demonstrates Language Understanding in a Blocks World

Terry Winograd's PhD thesis (MIT) demonstrated the ability o...
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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.⟶
Danny Bobrow's Dissertation on Natural Language Understanding (1964)
Natural Language ProcessingLanguage UnderstandingDanny BobrowMITAI researchComputational Linguistics
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🗣️ 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
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🧱 Winston's ARCH Program Learns Concepts from Blocks

Patrick Winston's PhD program, ARCH, at MIT learned concepts from examples in the world of children's blocks.⟶
Winston's ARCH Program Learns Concepts from Blocks (1970)
Machine LearningConcept LearningBlocks WorldPatrick WinstonEarly AIMITKnowledge Representation
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🤖 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.⟶
Winograd's SHRDLU Demonstrates Language Understanding in a Blocks World (1971)
Natural Language ProcessingBlocks WorldSHRDLULanguage UnderstandingRoboticsTerry WinogradMITEarly Demonstrations
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