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Using Declarative Knowledge for Understanding Natural Language

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Natural Language Parsing Systems

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Declarative knowledge includes no information prescribing when and how it can be used. For instance, “the article agrees with the noun in gender and number” is declarative knowledge: we can use it at the beginning of the parsing of a sentence, at the end, or not at all. We can check the gender, then the number, or the other way round, or only the gender. We can use it when we find an article, when we find a noun, in both cases, or when we have completed the parsing of a noun group.

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, PKiN, pok. 850, PL-00-901, Warsaw, Poland

    Leonard Bolc

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Pitrat, J. (1987). Using Declarative Knowledge for Understanding Natural Language. In: Bolc, L. (eds) Natural Language Parsing Systems. Symbolic Computation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83030-3_4

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