POLISH SEMANTIC PARSER

Abstract

Amount of information transferred by computers grows very rapidly thus outgrowing the avera- ge man’s capability of reception. It implies Computer programs increase in the demand for which would be able to perform an introductory classification or even selection of information directed to a particular receiver. Due to the complexity of the problem, we restricted it to understanding short ncwspaper notes. Among many conceptions formulated so far, the conceptual dependency worked out by Roger Schank has been chosen. It is a formal language of description of the se- mantics o f pronouncement integrated with a text understanding algorithm.

Substantial part of each text iransformation system is a semantic parser of the Polish language. It is a module, which as the first and the only one has an access to the text in the Polish language. It plays the role of an element, which fmds relations between words of the Polish language and the formal registration. It translates sentences written in the language used by people into the langua­ ge oftheory.

The presented structure of knowledge units and the shape of understanding process algorithms are universal by virtue of the theory. On the other hand the defined knowledge units and the rules used in the algorithms are only examples because they are constructed in order to understand short newspaper notes.