Semantic Information Processing

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Semantic Information Processing is a landmark 1968 edited volume by Marvin Minsky that helped establish foundational approaches to artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and natural language understanding.

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instanceOf book
edited volume
academicDiscipline artificial intelligence literature
aimedAt enabling computers to understand language
formalizing semantic information for computers
modeling human problem solving in machines
approach logic-based knowledge representation
semantic network representations
symbolic artificial intelligence
countryOfPublication United States of America
surface form: United States
describedAs foundational work in semantic information processing
landmark volume in artificial intelligence
editor Marvin Minsky NERFINISHED
field artificial intelligence
cognitive science
computer science
knowledge representation
natural language processing
focusesOn machine perception
natural language understanding
problem solving
reasoning
semantic information
hasContributor Allen Newell NERFINISHED
Bertram Raphael
Daniel G. Bobrow NERFINISHED
Herbert Simon
surface form: Herbert A. Simon

John McCarthy NERFINISHED
Marvin Minsky NERFINISHED
Patrick Winston NERFINISHED
Ross Quillian
hasPart “A Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language”
“A Logic for Semantic Information”
“A Question-Answering System for High School Algebra Word Problems”
“A Semantic Model for Memory”
“A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge”
“Natural Language Input for a Computer Problem-Solving System”
“Programs with Common Sense”
influenced cognitive modeling in AI
development of semantic networks
early AI research on knowledge representation
frame-based knowledge representation
natural language understanding systems
question-answering systems
isPartOf early MIT AI research tradition
language English
publicationYear 1968
publisher MIT Press
surface form: The MIT Press
timePeriod early era of symbolic AI

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Marvin Minsky notableWork Semantic Information Processing