SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE INSTRUCTIONS SHOWING A WAY

Syntactic Analysis of Natural Language

1. Linguistic Basis for Computations . . . . . . .153 .1 Immediate Constituent Analysis ....... 154 .2 String Analysis ......... 154 .3 Lcft-to-Kight Scanning and Predictive Analysis .... 155 .4 Transformationul Analysis ........ 156 .5 Other Methods 156 2. A Procedure for Left-to-RightString Decomposition of Sentences . 157 2.1 Word-by-\Vord Formulation of String Structure .... 157 2.2 Indirec...

A Survey Of Syntactic Analysis Procedures For Natural Language

On The Interpretation Of Natural Language Instructions

In this paper, we dLscuss the approach we take to the interpretation of instructions. Instructions describe actions related to each other and to other goals the agent may have; our claim is that the agent must actively compute the actions that s/he has to perfomt, not simply "extract" their descriptions from the input. We will start by discussing some inferences that are necessary m understand ...

Goals and Actions in Natural Language Instructions

Human agents are extremely flexible in dealing with Natural Language instructions: they are able both to adapt the plan they are developing to the input instructions, and vice versa, to adapt the input instructions to the plan they are developing. Borrowing the term from [Lewis 1979], I call this two-way adaptation process accommodation. In this proposal, I first define accommodation in the con...

Learning to Interpret Natural Language Instructions

We address the problem of training an artificial agent to follow verbal instructions using a set of instructions paired with demonstration traces of appropriate behavior. From this data, a mapping from instructions to tasks is learned, enabling the agent to carry out new instructions in novel environments.