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SHRDLU, Procedures, Mini-World

In: Mind, Language, Machine

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  • Michael L. Johnson

    (University of Kansas)

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Rumelhart’s observation that ‘Linguistic inputs are designed to fit into a general framework and are dependent upon that framework to make sense’1 parallels Terry Winograd’s more poststructuralist one, about linguistically based knowledge, that ‘There is no self-contained set of “primitives” from which everything else can be defined. Definitions are circular, with the meaning of each concept depending on the other concepts.’2 (Every text has — and itself already is — an intertext.) Like Rumelhart, Winograd has researched extensively the machine modelling of language comprehension, but he has been especially concerned with building contextually conditioned ‘semantic structures’ (structured lists that describe subjects and relationships and summate plausibilities among their components) to explore how meaning inheres in the interrelations of concepts in some ‘general framework’.

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  • Michael L. Johnson, 1988. "SHRDLU, Procedures, Mini-World," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Mind, Language, Machine, chapter 20, pages 113-122, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-19404-9_20
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19404-9_20
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