1973 student paper award. An alogorithm for generating structural surrogates of english text

Suzanne M. Strong

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1974, vol. 25, issue 1, 10-24

Abstract: This paper describes the development and application of an algorithm which generates non‐linear representations of English text. The algorithm uses the results of a syntactic analysis system and a set of rules which prescribe linkages to generate a graph of a sentence. The shape of these graphs corresponds to the syntax of the sentence; the labels correspond to the vocabulary of the sentence and the edge types correspond to case grammar roles. The sentence graphs can then be interconnected at common nodes and analyzed according to common edges. Preliminary experimentation has yielded promising results. It appears that the algorithm produces a representation of English text which could be quite useful in automatic language processing.

Date: 1974
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