Natural Language Processing

11 Feb 2004*

CS 3243 - Optional Lecture - NLP

8

Component Steps of Communication

HEARER:

lPerception:

“The wumpus is dead”

lAnalysis

(Parsing):

l

l

(Semantic Interpretation): ØAlive(Wumpus, Now)

Tired(Wumpus, Now)

(Pragmatic Interpretation): ØAlive(Wumpus1, S3)

Tired(Wumpus1, S3)

l

S

NP

VP

Article

Noun

Verb

Adjective

The

wumpus

is

dead