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SRI International: description of the TACITUS system as used for MUC-3

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MUC3 '91: Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Message understanding

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https://doi.org/10.3115/1071958.1071991

Published: 21 May 1991 Publication History

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TACITUS is a system for interpreting natural language texts that has been under development since 1985. It has a preprocessor and postprocessor currently tailored to the MUC-3 application. It performs a syntactic analysis of the sentences in the text, using a fairly complete grammar of English, producing a logical form in first-order predicate calculus. Pragmatics problems are solved by abductive inference in a pragmatics, or interpretation, component.

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Hobbs, Jerry R., Stickel, Mark, Appelt, Douglas, and Martin, Paul, "Interpretation as Abduction", SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center Technical Note 499, December 1990.]]

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Gaizauskas RHumphreys K(1997)Using a semantic network for information extractionNatural Language Engineering10.1017/S13513249970017693:2(147-169)Online publication date: 1-Sep-1997
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Gomez FHull RSegami CJacobs P(1994)Acquiring knowledge from encyclopedic textsProceedings of the fourth conference on Applied natural language processing10.3115/974358.974377(84-90)Online publication date: 13-Oct-1994
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Appelt DBear JHobbs JIsrael DTyson M(1992)SRI International FASTUS systemProceedings of the 4th conference on Message understanding10.3115/1072064.1072085(143-147)Online publication date: 16-Jun-1992
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/1072064.1072085

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