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A new data structure developed in connection with a natural language question-answering system is described. The data structure is based upon a new high-order calculus. It allows a great degree of expressiveness and is suitable for extensive logical deduction. The inadequacies of low-order schemes for the representation of natural language information are given. A formal description of the new high-order structure which overcomes these inadequacies is then presented along with the properties that make it more suitable and attractive for machine processing of natural language information.
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This work is supported in part by the Office of Education under Grant OE C-1-7-071213-4557 and by the Joint Services Electronics Program under Contract DAAB-07-67-C-0199.
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Biss, K.O., Chien, R.T. & Stahl, F.A. A data structure for cognitive information retrieval. International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences 1, 17–27 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01108516
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01108516