Abstract
It has been demonstrated in a wide variety of “question answering systems” and other natural language interfaces that ATN-grammars provide a practical tool which can accommodate a variety of language theories. We report here on the experience we gathered at the “Man Machine Communication Group” (University of Stuttgart) with the compilation of Augmented Transition Networks into Lisp, and some applications of ATN-grammars.
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Laubsch, J., Barth, K. (1983). Compiling Augmented Transition Networks into MacLisp. In: Bloc, L. (eds) The Design of Interpreters, Compilers, and Editors for Augmented Transition Networks. Symbolic Computation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82122-6_3
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