@techreport{R-89-22, TITLE = {A Constraint-Based Model for Natural-Language Understanding and a Pilot Implementation}, AUTHOR = {Lars Ahrenberg}, YEAR = {1989}, NUMBER = {R-89-22}, INSTITUTION = ida, ADDRESS = idaaddr, ABSTRACTURL = {/publications/cgi-bin/tr-fetch.pl?r-89-22+abstr}, ABSTRACT = {This paper describes and evaluates a pilot implementation of a model for natural-language understanding. An essential feature of the model is its coupling of a unification-based linguistic description with an object-oriented representation of domain and discourse knowledge. For both tasks knowledge is represented and manipulated as object descriptions in the form of attribute-value structures. These are in turn built up from constraints associated with words and constructions of the grammar and with types and attributes of the domain knowledge base.}, IDANR = {LiTH-IDA-R-89-22}