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                 COMPUTER ENGINEERING SEMINAR

               Understanding Courses of Action

                            by

                Prof. Maria Zamfir Bleyberg
       Computing and Information Sciences Department
                 Kansas State University

                          Abstract

We have achieved the capability of building computer-based machines
that are capable of performing useful human tasks. The machines will
become accessible to people who are not computer professionals only if
they support communication in a natural language, such as English.
Computer understanding of an English text is not possible without
considering the knowlegde about how actions are performed in a
particular domain.

In this talk we examine the understanding of an English text that is
placed in a scenario of a chemical laboratory that contains several
robots, each of which can be engaged in the execution of an analytical
procedure. Our approach is based on a conceptual model in which an
analytical procedure is represented as a Petri net. The Petri net can
be viewed as a concurrent plan that encodes the connections implied in
the text. The English text describing an analytical procedure is
processed by incorporating the conceptual model into a marker-passing
model.

	DATE:	FRIDAY, OCT. 23, 1992

	TIME:	10:30 A.M.: SEMINAR

		11:30 A.M.: Q&A

	LOCATION:	SEAVER SCIENCE AUDITORIUM

	HOST:	Prof. Moldovan

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