🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <6946@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> budd@mist.UUCP (Tim Budd) writes:
>Such efforts more or less met with utter and complete defeat in the late 
>50's and 60's.  Indeed so much so that some people working in understanding
>English (such at the folks at Yale), almost totally abandoned any
>notion of syntax, and proceeded with just a semantic analysis of
>utterances.  So I fear your quest will be a futile one; the best you
>can hope for is a grammar for a rather stilted and minimal subset of 
>English.

I think that Fred Thompson, of the Caltech C.S. Dep't., would not
entirely agree with this statement.  His work is in natural-language
interfaces and, though recognizing its limits, he has managed to do
quite a bit using a syntax-based approach.  The person who originally
asked about this may want to write Dr. Thompson, at Caltech 256-80,
Pasadena, CA 91125.

Kevin S. Van Horn