Research in Progress

BBN's project in knowledge representation for natural language understanding is developing techniques for computer assistance to a decision maker who is collecting information about and making choices in a complex situation. In particular, we are designing a system for natural language control of an intelligent graphics display. This system is intended for use in situation assessment and information management. Our work is concentrated in the development of fundamental techniques for knowledge representation and language understanding. Specifically, we are working on advanced parsing techniques, syntactic/semantic interaction, recognition of speaker intent, anaphora and deixis, fundamental knowledge representation techniques, and parallel algorithms and techniques for knowledge-based inference.